1 debhelper (7.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
4 contributed by Modestas Vainius
5 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
6 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
7 that support it. Closes: #480577
8 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
9 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
10 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
12 - Adds support for cmake.
13 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:26:08 -0400
18 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
21 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
25 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
29 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
30 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
32 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
33 file support. Closes: #494914
34 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
38 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
41 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
42 parameters. Closes: #527256
43 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
44 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
45 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
49 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
53 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
54 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
55 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
59 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
62 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
63 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
64 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
68 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
71 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
72 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
74 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
75 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
76 by triggers). Closes: #521181
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
80 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
84 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
88 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
91 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
92 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
93 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
94 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
99 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
105 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
108 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
109 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
110 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
111 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
112 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
114 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
115 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
116 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
117 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
118 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
119 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
123 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
126 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
127 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
128 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
129 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
130 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
132 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
136 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
138 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
142 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
144 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
145 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
146 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
147 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
148 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
149 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
150 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
151 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
152 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
153 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
154 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
158 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
160 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
161 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
163 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
164 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
165 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
166 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
168 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
169 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
173 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
175 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
176 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
177 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
178 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
179 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
180 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
181 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
183 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
184 that uses them. Affected options are:
185 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
186 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
187 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
188 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
189 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
190 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
191 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
192 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
193 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
194 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
195 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
196 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
200 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
207 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
213 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
215 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
216 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
218 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
219 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
220 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
221 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
222 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
224 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
226 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
227 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
228 rules (see bug #509756).
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
232 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
235 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
238 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
239 * Typo. Closes: #493062
240 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
241 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
245 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
248 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
249 empty files. Closes: #490937
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
253 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
259 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
266 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
269 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
270 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
271 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
272 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
277 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
279 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
280 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
281 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
282 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
286 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
289 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
290 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
291 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
292 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
293 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
297 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
304 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
306 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
307 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
308 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
309 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
310 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
311 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
312 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
313 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
314 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
315 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
319 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
322 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
323 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
324 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
325 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
327 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
328 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
329 breaking backwards compatability.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
333 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
336 message in perl 5.10.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
340 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
346 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Convert copyright file to new format.
349 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
353 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
356 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
360 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
363 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
364 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
365 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
366 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
367 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
368 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
369 logging by dh_listpackages.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
373 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
376 run and there are no packages of that type.
377 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
378 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
379 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
380 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
382 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
383 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
387 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
389 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
390 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
391 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
395 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
398 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
399 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
401 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
402 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
403 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
404 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
405 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
406 planned but not yet implemented.)
407 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
408 if the Makefile has such a target.
409 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
410 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
411 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
412 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
413 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
414 but not yet implemented.)
415 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
416 recommended default, especially when using dh.
417 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
418 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
419 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
421 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
423 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
424 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
426 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
427 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
428 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
433 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
436 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
437 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
441 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
443 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
444 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
445 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
449 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
455 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
461 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
464 just those installed by the program.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
468 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
471 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
472 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
476 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
479 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
480 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
481 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
482 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
486 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
489 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
490 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
494 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
497 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
498 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
502 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
505 with policy. Closes: #461392
506 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
507 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
508 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
509 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
510 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
514 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
517 Closes: #460340, #460351
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
521 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
524 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
525 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
526 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
527 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
531 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
533 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
534 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
535 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
536 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
537 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
538 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
539 package build directory won't work.
540 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
541 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
542 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
543 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
544 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
545 mode. Closes: #459426
546 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
551 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
554 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
558 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
562 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
563 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
564 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
565 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
566 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
567 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
571 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
574 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
575 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
576 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
577 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
581 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
584 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
585 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
586 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
587 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
588 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
592 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
595 debian/package.triggers files.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
599 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
602 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
606 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
609 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
610 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
611 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
612 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
617 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
620 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
624 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
627 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
628 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
630 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
635 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
639 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
640 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
641 * Typo. Closes: #441272
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
645 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
652 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
659 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
661 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
662 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
664 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
665 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
666 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
668 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
669 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
670 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
674 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
677 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
678 * Update urls to web page.
679 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
681 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
682 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
686 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
689 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
690 - typo in alternatives call
691 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
693 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
694 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
698 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
701 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
706 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
712 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
718 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
721 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
723 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
724 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
725 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
726 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
727 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
728 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
729 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
730 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
731 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
732 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
733 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
737 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
740 package install. Closes: #415717
741 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
742 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
743 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
744 script and then remove the python files.
745 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
746 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
747 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
748 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
749 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
750 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
751 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
752 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
753 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
754 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
755 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
756 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
757 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
761 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Correct typo in french translation
767 * Typo. Closes: #400571
768 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
770 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
772 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
773 Closes: #406921, #381940
774 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
776 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
777 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
778 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
779 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
780 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
781 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
782 specified). Closes: #381851
783 * Misc minor changes.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
787 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
794 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
795 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
799 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
805 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
806 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
809 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
810 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
812 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
813 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
814 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
815 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
819 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
822 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
825 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
829 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
835 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
841 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
842 a difficult situation.
843 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
844 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
845 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
846 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
847 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
848 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
849 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
850 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
851 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
852 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
856 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Non-maintainer upload.
859 * Update of dh_python
860 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
861 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
863 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
864 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
865 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
866 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
867 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
869 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
871 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Non-maintainer upload.
874 * Update of dh_python
875 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
876 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
877 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
878 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
879 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
880 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
881 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
882 specific python version. Closes: #373853
883 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
884 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
886 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
887 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
888 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
889 the not too-distant future).
890 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
891 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
892 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
893 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
894 thus made the build fail.
896 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
898 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Non-maintainer upload.
901 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
903 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
905 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
908 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
909 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
910 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
911 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
912 package. Closes: #301424
913 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
914 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
915 fonts). Closes: #372686
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
919 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
925 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
926 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
927 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
928 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
929 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
930 above, but already depends on that.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
934 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
937 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
938 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
939 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
940 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
941 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
945 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
951 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
954 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
957 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
958 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
962 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
965 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
969 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
973 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
974 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
975 new version (0.24.1).
976 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
977 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
980 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
981 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
982 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
983 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
984 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
985 new directory on their own.
986 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
987 * Fix broken directory removal code.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
991 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
994 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
995 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
996 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
997 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1001 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1004 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1005 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1006 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1007 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1008 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1012 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1018 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1022 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1023 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1027 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1028 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1032 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1034 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1035 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1037 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1038 ignored. Closes: #337664
1040 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1045 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1051 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1056 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1057 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1058 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1059 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1060 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1061 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1062 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1066 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1069 version. Closes: #350607
1070 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1071 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1072 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1073 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1077 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1080 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1081 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1082 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1086 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1093 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1099 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1102 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1106 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1109 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1110 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1111 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1112 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1113 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1114 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1118 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1121 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1122 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1127 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1130 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1134 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1137 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1141 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1144 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1145 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1146 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1147 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1148 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1149 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1153 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1157 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1158 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1159 link. Closes: #346405
1160 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1162 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1163 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1164 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1165 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1166 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1167 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1168 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1172 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1179 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1185 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1188 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1192 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1195 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1200 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1204 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1205 installed. Closes: #342033
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1209 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1212 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1213 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1214 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1219 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1225 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1231 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1235 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1236 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1237 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1241 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1244 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1249 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1256 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1262 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1265 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1266 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1267 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1268 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1269 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1270 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1271 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1273 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1277 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1280 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1281 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1285 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1288 in standard man dirs.
1289 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1293 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1299 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1302 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1307 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1314 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1321 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1324 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1325 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1329 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1332 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1333 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1334 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1336 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1338 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1344 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1350 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1353 mode. Closes: #324161
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1357 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1360 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1361 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1362 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1363 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1368 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1371 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1372 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1373 is necesary for sanity.
1374 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1375 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1380 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1382 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1383 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1387 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1390 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1394 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1400 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1403 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1404 released, so use at your own risk.
1405 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1406 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1408 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1409 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1410 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1411 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1412 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1413 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1414 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1415 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1416 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1417 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1418 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1419 including twice per config file line now..
1420 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1421 and simplfy the rules file.
1422 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1423 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1424 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1426 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1427 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1431 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1434 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1438 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1441 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1445 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1448 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1452 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1455 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1456 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1457 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1458 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1459 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1460 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1464 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1467 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1468 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1469 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1474 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1477 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1478 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1483 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1486 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1487 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1488 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1493 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1496 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1497 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1498 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1502 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1508 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1515 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1518 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1519 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1520 unknown. Closes: #282924
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1524 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1531 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Spanish man page updates.
1534 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1539 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1545 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1548 * dh_desktop: reindent
1549 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1550 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1554 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1560 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1562 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1566 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1568 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1572 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1575 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1576 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1580 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1586 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1592 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1599 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1602 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1606 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1609 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1610 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1611 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1612 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1613 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1614 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1616 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1617 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1618 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1619 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1620 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1621 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1622 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1623 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1624 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1625 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1626 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1627 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1628 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1629 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1630 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1631 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1635 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1642 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1645 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1649 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1652 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1656 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1659 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1663 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1666 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1670 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1676 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1682 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1688 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1691 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1692 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1693 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1697 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1700 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1704 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1707 but occasionally right and necessary.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1711 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1714 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1715 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1716 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1717 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1718 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1722 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1725 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1727 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1728 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1729 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1730 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1731 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1732 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1733 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1734 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1735 postinst scripts for udebs.
1736 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1740 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1743 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1745 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1746 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1750 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1756 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1763 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1770 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1773 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1777 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1780 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1784 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1787 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1790 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1791 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1795 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1801 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1804 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1808 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1811 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1812 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1813 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1815 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1817 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1818 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1819 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1823 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1826 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1831 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1834 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1835 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1836 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1841 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1847 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1856 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1857 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1858 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1859 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1860 associated -dbg packages.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1864 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1867 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1871 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1874 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1878 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1881 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1885 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1888 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1893 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1896 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1900 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1903 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1908 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1911 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1919 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1920 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1921 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1922 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1923 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1924 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1925 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1926 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1927 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1928 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1932 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1935 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1943 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1944 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1948 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1951 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1952 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1957 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1960 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1964 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1967 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1971 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1974 out section number. Closes: #204731
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1978 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1985 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1991 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1997 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2000 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2001 removal. Closes: #204286
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2008 renaming. Closes: #203548
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2012 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2015 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2016 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2026 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2032 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2038 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2041 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2042 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2043 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2047 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2050 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2051 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2055 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2061 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2068 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2071 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2076 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2079 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2083 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2086 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2088 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2089 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2096 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2101 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2104 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2108 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2114 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2116 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2120 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2123 it break hard links (see #188663).
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2130 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2134 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2140 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2144 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2145 debconf-mergetemplates
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2149 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2152 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2156 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2159 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2163 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2166 * Update debhelper(1).
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2170 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2173 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2174 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2175 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2176 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2177 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2181 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2184 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2185 the shell. Closes: #178524
2186 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2190 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2193 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2197 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2200 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2204 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2207 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2208 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2209 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2210 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2215 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2218 files from installation.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2222 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2225 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2226 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2230 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2233 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2237 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2240 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2244 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2250 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2256 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2260 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2261 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2263 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2267 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2270 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2271 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2272 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2273 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2277 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2280 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2284 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2287 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2288 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2292 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2296 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2307 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2311 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2312 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2313 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2318 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2321 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2322 practice. Closes: #163303
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2326 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2332 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2339 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2342 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2344 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2345 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2346 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2347 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2348 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2355 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2360 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2376 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2381 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2393 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2409 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2410 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2411 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2412 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2417 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2433 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2434 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2441 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2442 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2443 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2444 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2445 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2449 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2452 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2454 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2462 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2466 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2469 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2470 right thing. Closes: #150644
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Stupid, evil typo.
2477 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2491 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2492 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2497 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2503 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2506 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2513 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2514 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2519 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2522 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2532 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2535 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2536 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2540 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2546 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Removing perl warning message.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2555 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2556 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2557 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2558 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2559 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2560 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2561 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2562 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2566 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2572 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2579 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2582 debconf-mergetemplate.
2583 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2584 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2588 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2591 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2592 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2593 dh_install, which ...
2594 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2595 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2596 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2597 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2598 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2599 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2600 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2601 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2602 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2603 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2604 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2605 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2606 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2607 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2608 other minor changes.
2609 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2610 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2611 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2612 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2613 course there's -X ..)
2614 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2615 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2616 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2618 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2619 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2620 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2621 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2622 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2627 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2633 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2636 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2640 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2646 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2652 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2658 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2664 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2667 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2668 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2669 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2670 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2672 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2673 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2677 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2683 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2686 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2690 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2693 upset. Closes: #131322
2695 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2697 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2700 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2701 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2702 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2703 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2704 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2705 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2706 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2707 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2708 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2709 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2710 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2711 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2712 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2713 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2714 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2716 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2720 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2723 - Better indenting of generated code.
2724 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2728 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2732 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2733 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2734 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2735 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2736 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2737 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2738 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2742 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2745 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2749 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2752 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2753 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2754 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2755 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2756 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2757 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2758 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2759 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2760 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2761 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2762 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2763 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2764 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2765 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2766 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2771 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2777 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2780 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2781 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2785 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2788 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2789 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2793 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2799 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2802 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2803 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2804 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2805 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2806 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2811 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2817 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2820 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2824 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2827 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2832 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2838 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2841 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2845 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2851 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2855 Also some indentation fixes.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2859 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2862 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2863 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2864 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2865 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2866 Closes: #106514, #85520
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2870 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2876 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2882 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2888 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2894 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2900 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2903 change it in debhelper v4..
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2907 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2913 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2916 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2920 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2923 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2927 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2933 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2936 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2937 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2938 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2939 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2940 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2941 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2942 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2943 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2944 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2945 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2946 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2947 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2951 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2954 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2958 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2965 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2968 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2969 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2970 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2971 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2972 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2973 program those options go to. So, for example,
2974 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2975 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2976 something complex. Closes: #89311
2977 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2981 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2984 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2985 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2986 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2990 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2993 through loop. Closes: #98598
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2997 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Missing semi-colon.
3000 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3001 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3005 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3008 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3009 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3010 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3014 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3017 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3018 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3022 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3025 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3029 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3032 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3033 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3037 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3040 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3041 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3042 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3046 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3049 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3050 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3051 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3055 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3058 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3062 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3068 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3074 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3080 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3086 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3089 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3093 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3096 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3097 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3098 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3099 followed. Closes: #85483
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3103 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3105 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3106 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3107 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3111 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3114 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3115 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3116 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3117 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3118 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3119 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3120 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3121 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3122 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3123 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3124 Closes: #88464, #77743
3125 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3126 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3127 us to deal with that gracefully.
3128 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3130 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3131 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3132 a while, Closes: #51225
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3136 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3142 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3145 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3149 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3153 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3158 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3161 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3162 don't make packlist files.
3163 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3164 debhelper coding standards.
3165 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3166 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3170 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3173 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3177 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3180 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3181 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3182 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3183 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3184 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3185 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3186 but is mildly deprecated.
3187 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3188 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3189 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3190 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3191 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3192 switching to statoverrides..
3193 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3194 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3195 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3196 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3197 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3198 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3200 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3201 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3202 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3203 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3204 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3205 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3206 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3207 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3208 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3210 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3211 variable names, pod man pages).
3212 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3213 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3214 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3215 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3216 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3217 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3218 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3222 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3228 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3235 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3238 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3242 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3244 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3245 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3246 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3250 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3252 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3253 they were previously ignored.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3257 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3259 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3260 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3264 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3266 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3267 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3268 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3272 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3274 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3278 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3280 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3281 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3285 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3287 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3288 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3289 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3290 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3291 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3292 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3293 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3294 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3295 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3296 it is an obsolete program.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3300 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3302 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3306 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3310 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3312 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3316 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3318 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3320 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3322 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3326 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3332 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * typo: Closes, #78567
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3338 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3344 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3350 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3353 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3354 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3355 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3356 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3357 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3361 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3364 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3369 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3372 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3373 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3374 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3375 backwards-compatability.
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3379 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3382 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3383 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3384 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3385 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3386 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3387 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3389 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3390 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3391 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3393 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3395 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3396 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3397 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3398 should now be raised to severity important..
3399 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3400 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3404 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3407 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3412 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3418 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3424 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3430 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3437 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3440 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3441 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3442 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3443 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3447 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3456 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3457 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3458 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3459 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3460 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3461 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3466 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3469 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3473 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3479 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3482 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3487 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3490 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3491 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3492 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3493 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3497 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3501 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3504 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3507 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3508 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3511 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3513 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3514 the TODO entry about it.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3518 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3525 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3528 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3529 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3533 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3536 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3537 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3538 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3539 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3543 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3549 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3556 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3559 (this appears to be logal).
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3563 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3566 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3567 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3568 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3569 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3573 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3579 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3582 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3583 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3584 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3585 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3589 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3595 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3598 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3602 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3609 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3612 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3613 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3614 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3619 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3626 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3632 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3635 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3636 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3637 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3638 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3639 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3640 notice until v2 is complete.
3641 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3642 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3643 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3644 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3645 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3646 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3648 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3649 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3650 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3651 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3655 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3661 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3668 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3671 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3675 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3682 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3685 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3686 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3687 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3688 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3693 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3696 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3697 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3698 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3703 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3706 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3707 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3711 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3714 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3718 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3721 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3725 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3732 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3735 depend on the build and install targets.
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3739 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3742 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3746 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3753 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3765 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3768 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3769 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3770 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3771 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3772 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3773 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3775 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3776 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3777 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3778 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3779 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3780 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3781 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3785 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3791 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3797 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3800 right place. Closes: #55065
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3804 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3811 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3814 * Copyright date updates.
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3818 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3821 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3826 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3832 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3839 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3845 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3851 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3857 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3860 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3861 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3862 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3863 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3864 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3865 bits until all files have been registered.
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3869 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * dh_installmanpages:
3872 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3873 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3874 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3875 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3876 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3877 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3878 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3879 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3880 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3881 otherwise change the result at all.
3883 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3884 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3885 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3886 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3887 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3892 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3898 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3901 act on files that don't exist.
3902 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3903 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3904 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3906 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3907 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3908 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3909 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3913 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3919 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3925 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3928 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3932 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3935 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3937 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3938 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3939 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3943 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3946 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3947 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3948 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3949 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3950 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3951 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3952 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3954 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3956 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3960 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3967 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3973 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3979 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3982 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3986 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3992 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4001 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4002 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4003 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4004 I made some changes, though:
4005 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4006 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4007 that is a clear violation of policy.
4008 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4009 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4010 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4011 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4012 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4013 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4014 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4015 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4016 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4018 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4022 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4031 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4035 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4038 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4039 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4044 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4050 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4057 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4060 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4061 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4062 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4063 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4064 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4065 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4066 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4080 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4081 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4085 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4094 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4098 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4101 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4102 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4106 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4108 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4113 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4117 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4124 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4125 for the dependancies to be generated.
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4129 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4132 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4139 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4140 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4141 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4149 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4150 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4154 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4166 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4169 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4179 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4182 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4183 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4184 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4185 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4186 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4187 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4188 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4189 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4190 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4191 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4192 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4193 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4200 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4201 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4203 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4204 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4205 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4206 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4207 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4208 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4210 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4211 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4215 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4218 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4232 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4240 for building debhelper.
4241 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4245 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4252 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4254 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4255 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4259 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4262 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4263 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4264 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4265 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4266 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4267 it's always available.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4271 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4274 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4275 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4276 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4280 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4283 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4284 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4297 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4307 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4310 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4311 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4312 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4319 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4327 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4328 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4330 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4331 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4335 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4341 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4347 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4350 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4357 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4358 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4360 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4364 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4367 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4368 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4369 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4373 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4376 things if CDPATH is set.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4386 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4389 seems to make sense for the transition.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4396 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4401 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4404 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4405 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4409 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4412 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4419 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4420 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4421 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4422 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4426 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4432 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4435 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4436 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4437 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4438 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4439 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4440 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4441 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4442 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4443 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4444 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4449 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4452 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4453 * README: mention doc/v2
4454 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4455 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4459 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4461 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4462 be using this script RSN.
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4466 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4469 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4470 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4471 more than 1 init script.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4475 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4478 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4482 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * Changed perl version detection.
4485 * Changed call to find.
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4489 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4492 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4494 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4499 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * Really include dh_installpam.
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4505 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4508 * Wrote man page for same.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4512 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4515 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4516 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4521 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4528 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4531 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4532 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4533 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4534 x bit was being set!
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4538 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4541 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4542 well. (Closes: 38900)
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4546 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4549 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4550 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4554 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4560 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4567 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4573 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4576 help from Julian Gilbey.
4577 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4578 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4579 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4580 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4581 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4582 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4583 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4588 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4594 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4601 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4607 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4613 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4616 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4620 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4623 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4627 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4630 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4634 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4640 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4643 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4647 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4653 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4659 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4662 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4663 may be deleted. (#35845)
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4667 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Various man page enhancements.
4670 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4675 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4678 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4679 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4683 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4686 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4687 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4688 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4690 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4691 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4696 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4702 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * Another very minor typo fix.
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4708 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * Very minor typo fix.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4714 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4717 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4718 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4722 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4728 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4731 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4732 variables properly (#34850).
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4736 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4742 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4745 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4746 (automatically generated by build process).
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4750 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4752 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4756 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4759 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4760 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4762 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4766 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4769 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4773 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * README: minor typo fix.
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4779 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4782 leave it at that. :-)
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4786 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4792 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4798 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4801 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4802 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4803 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4807 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4810 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4814 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4817 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4821 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4824 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4825 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4826 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4827 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4831 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4834 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4835 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4836 Craig Small for spotting this.
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4840 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4843 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4844 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4848 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4854 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4857 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4861 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4863 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4864 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4865 working on the last version of debhelper.
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4869 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4872 being made. (#23255)
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4876 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4882 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4885 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4889 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4892 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4893 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4894 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4895 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4899 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4902 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4903 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4904 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4905 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4907 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4908 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4910 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4915 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4921 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4927 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4930 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4931 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4932 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4933 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4934 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4935 suidregister actually supports it.
4936 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4937 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4941 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4948 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4951 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4952 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4953 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4954 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4955 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4956 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4957 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4961 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4963 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4964 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4968 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4971 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4972 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4973 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4974 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4978 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4981 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4983 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4984 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4985 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4986 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4987 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4988 effect, either. (#30118)
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4992 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4998 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5001 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5002 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5006 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5012 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5015 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5016 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5017 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5018 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5022 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5025 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5026 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5030 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5036 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5039 packages, painlessly.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5043 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5049 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5055 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5061 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * The perl conversion is complete.
5065 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5067 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5068 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5069 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5074 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5077 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5078 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5079 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5083 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5086 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5088 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5090 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5091 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5095 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5098 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5099 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5103 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5109 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5112 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5113 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5114 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5115 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5116 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5120 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5123 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5124 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5125 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5126 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5130 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5133 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5137 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5140 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5141 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5142 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5143 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5144 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5145 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5146 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5147 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5151 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5157 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5160 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5161 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5162 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5167 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5170 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5174 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5177 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5181 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5184 sections of shared libraries.
5185 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5186 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5187 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5188 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5189 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5190 things you don't want them to.
5191 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5192 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5196 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5199 shared libraries. (#26414)
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5205 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5206 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5207 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5208 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5212 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5216 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5218 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5219 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5220 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5221 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5222 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5226 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5229 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5233 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5236 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5237 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5242 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5245 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5249 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5252 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5253 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5254 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5255 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5256 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5258 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5259 remove debian/files properly.
5260 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5261 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5262 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5263 * Removed bogus menu file.
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5267 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5270 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5274 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5277 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5278 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5279 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5280 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5281 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5282 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5286 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5289 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5290 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5291 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5292 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5296 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5303 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5306 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5307 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5309 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5310 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5311 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5312 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5313 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5314 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5318 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5321 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5322 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5323 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5324 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5325 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5326 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5327 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5328 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5329 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5330 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5331 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5332 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5333 passed any switches.
5334 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5338 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5341 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5342 at all for a long while.
5343 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5344 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5345 large chunks in the process.
5346 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5347 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5348 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5353 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5356 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5358 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5363 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5366 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5367 that don't always have the same files in them.
5368 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5369 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5370 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5374 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5378 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5379 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5380 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5381 updating 27 man pages.
5382 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5383 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5384 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5385 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5386 programs act on. (#25247)
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5390 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5394 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5395 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5396 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5397 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5398 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5399 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5404 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5411 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5418 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5421 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5425 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5431 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5434 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5435 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5436 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5437 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5438 package by accident.
5439 * Is version 1.0 next?
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5443 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5446 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5447 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5451 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5454 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5455 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5456 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5457 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5458 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5460 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5465 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5468 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5469 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5473 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5476 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5480 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5483 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5484 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5489 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5495 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5498 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5499 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5504 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5510 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5513 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5514 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5515 past week. Thanks, guys!
5517 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5518 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5519 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5520 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5521 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5522 would do in the same situation.
5523 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5524 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5526 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5528 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5529 permissions changed.
5530 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5531 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5532 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5533 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5534 files are treated identically.
5535 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5536 * Minor man page fixes.
5537 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5538 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5539 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5543 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5546 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5547 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5548 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5549 use -X multiple times, too.
5550 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5551 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5555 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5558 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5559 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5563 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5566 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5570 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5573 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5574 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5575 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5576 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5577 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5578 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5579 shape if you're starting a new package.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5583 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5586 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5590 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5593 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5594 because of missing symlinks.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5598 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5604 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5607 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5608 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5609 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5610 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5611 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5613 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5614 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5618 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5620 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5621 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5622 to be changed after the fact :-)
5623 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5627 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5629 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5630 no version string after the -V.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5634 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5636 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5637 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5642 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5645 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5649 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5652 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5653 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5654 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5655 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5656 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5657 I always welcome corrections!
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5661 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5667 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5670 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5671 * Documented this new switch.
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5675 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5678 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5679 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5680 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5681 no packages use the old behavior.
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5685 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5688 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5689 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5693 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5696 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5700 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5706 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5709 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5713 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5716 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5717 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5718 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5722 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5728 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5731 into the source package by accident.
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5735 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5738 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5739 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5740 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5741 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5742 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5743 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5748 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5752 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5753 inspired to implement some of it.
5754 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5758 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5761 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5765 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5768 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5769 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5773 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5776 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5777 have done.) (#17598)
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5781 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5787 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5789 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5793 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5796 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5800 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5803 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5804 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5808 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5810 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5811 argument processor in perl.
5812 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5813 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5814 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5815 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5819 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5822 type directories. (#16933)
5823 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5824 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5825 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5826 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5827 are supported. (#16935)
5828 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5833 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5836 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5840 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5844 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5845 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5846 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5847 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5848 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5849 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5853 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5855 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5856 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5857 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5859 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5860 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5861 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5862 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5863 a given package, or -i or -a.
5864 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5865 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5866 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5867 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5868 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5869 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5870 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5871 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5872 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5874 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5875 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5876 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5880 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5883 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5884 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5889 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5892 does not have a section.
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5896 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5899 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5900 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5901 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5905 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * Fixed typo #16215.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5911 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5914 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5915 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5916 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5917 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5918 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5923 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5926 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5927 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5928 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5933 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5939 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5945 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5947 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5948 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5949 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5950 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5951 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5952 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5953 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5957 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5959 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5963 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5966 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5970 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5973 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5974 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5975 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5979 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5982 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5986 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5992 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5995 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5999 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6002 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6006 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6012 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6015 postinst, postrm, etc.
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6019 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6021 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6025 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6027 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6028 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6029 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6030 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6031 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6032 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6036 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6039 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6040 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6044 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6046 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6047 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6051 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6054 installing package files into.
6055 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6060 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6064 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6068 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6074 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6077 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6081 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6084 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6085 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6086 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6087 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6091 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6093 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6094 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6095 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6096 multiple binary packages.
6097 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6098 should rebuild them with this version.
6099 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6103 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6105 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6106 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6110 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6113 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6117 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6120 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6121 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6122 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6123 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6124 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6125 debian/README.debian.
6126 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6127 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6128 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6129 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6130 in a few situations.)
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6134 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6140 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6146 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6149 * Fixed several man pages.
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6153 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6156 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6157 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6161 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6163 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6164 is ready for general use.
6165 * Added man pages for all commands.
6166 * Multiple binary package support.
6167 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6168 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6169 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6171 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6172 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6173 auto-installed as parameters.
6174 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6176 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6179 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6180 the package build directory it is to act on.
6181 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6182 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6183 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6187 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6189 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6190 ready to replace debstd.
6192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400