1 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
4 just those installed by the program.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
8 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
11 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
12 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
16 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
19 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
20 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
21 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
22 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
26 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
29 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
30 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
34 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
37 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
38 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
42 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
45 with policy. Closes: #461392
46 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
47 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
48 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
49 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
50 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
54 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
57 Closes: #460340, #460351
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
61 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
64 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
65 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
66 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
67 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
71 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
74 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
75 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
76 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
77 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
78 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
79 package build directory won't work.
80 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
81 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
82 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
83 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
84 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
86 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
91 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
94 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
98 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
102 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
103 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
104 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
105 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
106 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
107 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
111 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
114 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
115 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
116 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
117 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
121 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
124 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
125 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
126 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
127 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
128 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
132 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
135 debian/package.triggers files.
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
139 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
142 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
146 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
149 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
150 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
151 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
152 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
157 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
160 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
164 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
167 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
168 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
170 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
175 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
179 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
180 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
181 * Typo. Closes: #441272
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
185 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
192 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
199 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
202 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
204 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
205 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
206 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
208 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
209 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
210 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
214 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
217 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
218 * Update urls to web page.
219 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
221 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
222 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
226 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
229 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
230 - typo in alternatives call
231 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
233 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
234 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
238 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
241 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
246 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
252 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
258 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
261 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
263 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
264 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
265 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
266 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
267 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
268 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
269 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
270 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
271 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
272 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
273 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
277 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
280 package install. Closes: #415717
281 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
282 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
283 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
284 script and then remove the python files.
285 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
286 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
287 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
288 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
289 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
290 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
291 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
292 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
293 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
294 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
295 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
296 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
297 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
301 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Correct typo in french translation
307 * Typo. Closes: #400571
308 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
310 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
312 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
313 Closes: #406921, #381940
314 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
316 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
317 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
318 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
319 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
320 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
321 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
322 specified). Closes: #381851
323 * Misc minor changes.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
327 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
334 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
335 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
339 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
345 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
346 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
349 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
350 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
352 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
353 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
354 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
355 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
359 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
362 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
365 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
369 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
375 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
381 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
382 a difficult situation.
383 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
384 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
385 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
386 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
387 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
388 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
389 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
390 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
391 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
392 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
396 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Non-maintainer upload.
399 * Update of dh_python
400 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
401 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
403 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
404 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
405 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
406 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
407 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
409 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
411 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Non-maintainer upload.
414 * Update of dh_python
415 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
416 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
417 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
418 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
419 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
420 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
421 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
422 specific python version. Closes: #373853
423 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
424 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
426 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
427 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
428 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
429 the not too-distant future).
430 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
431 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
432 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
433 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
434 thus made the build fail.
436 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
438 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Non-maintainer upload.
441 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
443 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
445 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
448 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
449 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
450 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
451 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
452 package. Closes: #301424
453 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
454 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
455 fonts). Closes: #372686
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
459 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
465 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
466 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
467 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
468 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
469 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
470 above, but already depends on that.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
474 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
476 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
477 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
478 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
479 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
480 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
481 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
485 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
491 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
497 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
498 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
502 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
505 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
509 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
513 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
514 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
515 new version (0.24.1).
516 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
517 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
520 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
521 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
522 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
523 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
524 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
525 new directory on their own.
526 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
527 * Fix broken directory removal code.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
531 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
534 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
535 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
536 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
537 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
541 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
544 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
545 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
546 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
547 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
548 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
552 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
558 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Typo. Closes: #358904
562 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
563 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
567 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
568 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
572 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
574 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
575 || exit 0 instead of the intended
577 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
578 ignored. Closes: #337664
580 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
585 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
591 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
596 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
597 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
598 the dh_installdebconf manpage
599 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
600 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
601 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
602 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
606 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
609 version. Closes: #350607
610 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
611 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
612 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
613 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
617 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
620 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
621 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
622 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
626 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
633 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Minor bug fix from last release.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
639 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
642 language guessing. Closes: #193221
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
646 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
649 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
650 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
651 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
652 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
653 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
654 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
658 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
661 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
662 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
667 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
670 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
674 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
677 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
681 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
684 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
685 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
686 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
687 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
688 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
689 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
693 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
696 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
697 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
698 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
699 link. Closes: #346405
700 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
703 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
704 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
705 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
706 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
707 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
708 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
712 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
719 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
721 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
725 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
728 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
732 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
735 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
740 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
744 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
745 installed. Closes: #342033
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
749 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
752 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
753 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
754 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
759 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
765 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
771 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
775 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
776 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
777 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
781 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
784 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
789 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
796 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
802 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
804 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
805 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
806 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
807 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
808 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
809 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
810 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
811 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
813 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
817 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
820 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
821 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
825 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
828 in standard man dirs.
829 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
833 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
839 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
842 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
847 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
854 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
861 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
864 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
865 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
869 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
871 * NMU with maintainer approval.
872 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
873 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
874 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
876 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
878 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
884 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
890 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
893 mode. Closes: #324161
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
897 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
900 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
901 behavior change. Closes: #249815
902 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
903 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
908 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
911 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
912 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
913 is necesary for sanity.
914 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
915 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
920 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
922 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
923 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
927 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
930 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
934 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
940 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
943 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
944 released, so use at your own risk.
945 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
946 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
948 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
949 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
950 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
951 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
952 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
953 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
954 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
955 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
956 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
957 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
958 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
959 including twice per config file line now..
960 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
961 and simplfy the rules file.
962 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
963 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
964 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
966 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
967 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
971 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
974 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
978 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
981 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
985 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
987 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
988 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
992 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
995 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
996 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
997 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
998 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
999 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1000 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1004 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1007 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1008 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1009 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1014 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1017 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1018 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1023 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1026 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1027 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1028 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1033 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1036 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1037 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1038 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1042 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1048 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1055 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1058 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1059 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1060 unknown. Closes: #282924
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1064 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1071 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Spanish man page updates.
1074 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1079 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1085 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1088 * dh_desktop: reindent
1089 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1090 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1094 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1100 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1102 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1106 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1108 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1112 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1115 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1116 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1120 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1126 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1132 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1139 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1142 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1146 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1149 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1150 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1151 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1152 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1153 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1154 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1156 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1157 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1158 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1159 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1160 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1161 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1162 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1163 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1164 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1165 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1166 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1167 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1168 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1169 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1170 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1171 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1175 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1182 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1185 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1189 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1192 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1196 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1199 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1203 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1206 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1210 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1216 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1222 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1228 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1231 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1232 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1233 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1237 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1240 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1244 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1247 but occasionally right and necessary.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1251 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1254 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1255 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1256 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1257 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1258 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1262 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1265 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1267 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1268 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1269 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1270 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1271 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1272 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1273 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1274 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1275 postinst scripts for udebs.
1276 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1280 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1283 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1285 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1286 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1290 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1296 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1303 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1310 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1313 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1317 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1320 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1324 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1327 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1330 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1331 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1335 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1341 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1344 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1348 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1351 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1352 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1353 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1355 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1357 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1358 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1359 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1363 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1366 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1371 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1374 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1375 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1376 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1381 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1387 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1393 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1396 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1397 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1398 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1399 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1400 associated -dbg packages.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1404 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1407 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1411 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1414 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1418 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1421 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1425 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1428 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1433 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1436 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1440 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1443 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1448 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1451 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1455 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1459 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1460 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1461 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1462 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1463 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1464 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1465 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1466 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1467 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1468 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1472 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1475 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1480 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1483 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1484 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1488 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1491 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1492 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1497 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1500 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1504 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1507 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1511 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1514 out section number. Closes: #204731
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1518 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1525 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1531 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1537 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1540 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1541 removal. Closes: #204286
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1545 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1548 renaming. Closes: #203548
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1552 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1555 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1556 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1560 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1566 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1572 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1578 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1581 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1582 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1583 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1587 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1590 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1591 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1595 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1601 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1608 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1611 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1616 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1619 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1623 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1626 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1628 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1629 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1633 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1636 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1641 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1644 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1648 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1654 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1656 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1660 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1663 it break hard links (see #188663).
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1667 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1670 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1674 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1680 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1684 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1685 debconf-mergetemplates
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1689 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1692 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1696 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1699 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1703 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1706 * Update debhelper(1).
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1710 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1713 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1714 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1715 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1716 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1717 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1721 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1724 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1725 the shell. Closes: #178524
1726 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1730 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1733 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1737 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1740 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1744 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1747 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1748 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1749 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1750 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1755 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1758 files from installation.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1762 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1765 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1766 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1770 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1773 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1777 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1780 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1784 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1790 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1796 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1800 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1801 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1803 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1807 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1810 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1811 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1812 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1813 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1817 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1820 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1824 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1827 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1828 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1832 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1836 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1841 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1847 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1851 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1852 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1853 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1858 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1861 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1862 practice. Closes: #163303
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1866 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1872 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1879 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1882 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1884 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1885 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1886 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1887 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1888 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1895 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1900 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1916 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1927 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1949 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1950 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1951 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1952 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1957 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1963 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1970 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1973 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1974 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1978 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1981 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1982 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1983 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1984 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1985 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1992 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1994 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1999 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2002 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2009 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2010 right thing. Closes: #150644
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Stupid, evil typo.
2017 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2031 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2032 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2037 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2046 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2050 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2053 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2054 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2059 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2062 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2066 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2075 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2076 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2080 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Removing perl warning message.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2092 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2095 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2096 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2097 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2098 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2099 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2100 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2101 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2102 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2106 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2112 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2119 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2122 debconf-mergetemplate.
2123 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2124 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2128 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2131 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2132 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2133 dh_install, which ...
2134 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2135 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2136 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2137 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2138 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2139 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2140 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2141 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2142 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2143 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2144 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2145 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2146 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2147 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2148 other minor changes.
2149 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2150 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2151 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2152 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2153 course there's -X ..)
2154 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2155 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2156 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2158 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2159 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2160 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2161 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2162 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2167 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2173 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2176 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2180 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2186 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2192 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2198 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2204 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2207 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2208 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2209 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2210 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2212 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2213 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2217 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2223 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2226 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2230 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2233 upset. Closes: #131322
2235 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2237 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2240 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2241 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2242 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2243 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2244 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2245 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2246 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2247 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2248 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2249 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2250 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2251 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2252 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2253 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2254 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2256 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2260 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2263 - Better indenting of generated code.
2264 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2268 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2272 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2273 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2274 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2275 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2276 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2277 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2278 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2282 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2285 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2289 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2292 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2293 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2294 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2295 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2296 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2297 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2298 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2299 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2300 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2301 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2302 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2303 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2304 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2305 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2306 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2311 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2317 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2320 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2321 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2325 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2328 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2329 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2333 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2339 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2342 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2343 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2344 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2345 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2346 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2351 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2357 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2360 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2364 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2367 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2372 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2378 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2381 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2385 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2391 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2395 Also some indentation fixes.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2399 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2402 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2403 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2404 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2405 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2406 Closes: #106514, #85520
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2410 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2416 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2422 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2428 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2434 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2440 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2443 change it in debhelper v4..
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2447 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2453 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2456 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2460 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2463 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2467 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2473 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2476 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2477 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2478 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2479 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2480 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2481 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2482 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2483 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2484 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2485 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2486 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2487 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2491 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2494 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2498 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2505 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2508 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2509 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2510 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2511 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2512 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2513 program those options go to. So, for example,
2514 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2515 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2516 something complex. Closes: #89311
2517 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2521 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2524 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2525 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2526 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2530 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2533 through loop. Closes: #98598
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2537 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Missing semi-colon.
2540 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2541 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2545 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2548 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2549 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2550 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2554 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2557 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2558 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2562 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2565 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2569 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2572 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2573 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2577 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2580 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2581 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2582 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2586 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2589 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2590 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2591 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2595 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2598 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2602 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2608 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2614 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2620 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2626 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2629 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2633 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2636 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2637 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2638 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2639 followed. Closes: #85483
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2643 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2645 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2646 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2647 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2651 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2654 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2655 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2656 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2657 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2658 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2659 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2660 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2661 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2662 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2663 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2664 Closes: #88464, #77743
2665 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2666 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2667 us to deal with that gracefully.
2668 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2670 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2671 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2672 a while, Closes: #51225
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2676 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2682 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2685 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2689 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2693 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2698 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2701 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2702 don't make packlist files.
2703 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2704 debhelper coding standards.
2705 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2706 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2710 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2713 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2717 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2720 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2721 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2722 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2723 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2724 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2725 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2726 but is mildly deprecated.
2727 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2728 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2729 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2730 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2731 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2732 switching to statoverrides..
2733 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2734 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2735 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2736 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2737 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2738 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2740 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2741 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2742 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2743 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2744 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2745 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2746 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2747 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2748 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2750 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2751 variable names, pod man pages).
2752 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2753 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2754 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2755 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2756 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2757 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2758 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2762 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2768 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2775 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2778 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2782 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2784 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2785 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2786 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2790 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2792 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2793 they were previously ignored.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2797 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2799 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2800 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2804 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2806 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2807 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2808 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2812 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2814 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2818 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2820 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2821 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2825 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2827 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2828 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2829 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2830 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2831 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2832 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2833 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2834 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2835 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2836 it is an obsolete program.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2840 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2842 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2846 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2850 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2852 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2856 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2858 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2860 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2862 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2866 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2872 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * typo: Closes, #78567
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2878 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2884 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2890 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2893 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2894 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2895 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2896 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2897 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2901 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2904 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2909 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2912 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2913 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2914 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2915 backwards-compatability.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2919 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2922 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2923 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2924 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2925 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2926 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2927 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2929 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2930 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2931 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2933 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2935 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2936 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2937 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2938 should now be raised to severity important..
2939 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2940 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2944 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2947 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2952 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2958 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2964 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2970 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2977 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2980 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2981 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2982 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2983 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2987 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2993 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2996 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2997 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2998 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2999 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3000 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3001 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3006 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3009 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3013 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3019 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3022 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3027 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3030 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3031 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3032 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3033 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3037 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3041 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3044 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3047 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3048 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3051 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3053 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3054 the TODO entry about it.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3058 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3065 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3068 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3069 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3073 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3076 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3077 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3078 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3079 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3083 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3089 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3096 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3099 (this appears to be logal).
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3103 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3106 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3107 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3108 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3109 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3113 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3119 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3122 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3123 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3124 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3125 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3129 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3135 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3138 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3142 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3149 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3152 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3153 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3154 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3159 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3166 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3172 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3175 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3176 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3177 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3178 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3179 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3180 notice until v2 is complete.
3181 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3182 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3183 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3184 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3185 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3186 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3188 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3189 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3190 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3191 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3195 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3201 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3208 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3211 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3215 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3222 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3225 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3226 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3227 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3228 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3233 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3236 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3237 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3238 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3243 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3246 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3247 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3251 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3254 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3258 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3261 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3265 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3272 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3275 depend on the build and install targets.
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3279 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3282 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3286 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3293 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3299 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3305 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3308 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3309 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3310 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3311 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3312 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3313 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3315 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3316 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3317 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3318 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3319 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3320 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3321 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3325 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3331 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3337 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3340 right place. Closes: #55065
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3344 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3351 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3354 * Copyright date updates.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3358 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3361 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3366 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3372 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3379 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3385 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3391 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3397 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3400 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3401 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3402 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3403 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3404 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3405 bits until all files have been registered.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3409 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_installmanpages:
3412 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3413 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3414 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3415 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3416 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3417 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3418 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3419 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3420 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3421 otherwise change the result at all.
3423 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3424 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3425 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3426 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3427 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3432 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3438 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3441 act on files that don't exist.
3442 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3443 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3444 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3446 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3447 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3448 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3449 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3459 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3465 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3468 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3472 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3475 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3477 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3478 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3479 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3483 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3486 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3487 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3488 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3489 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3490 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3491 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3492 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3494 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3496 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3500 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3507 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3513 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3519 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3522 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3526 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3532 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3538 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3541 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3542 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3543 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3544 I made some changes, though:
3545 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3546 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3547 that is a clear violation of policy.
3548 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3549 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3550 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3551 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3552 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3553 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3554 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3555 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3556 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3558 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3562 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3568 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3571 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3575 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3578 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3579 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3584 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3590 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3597 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3600 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3601 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3602 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3603 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3604 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3605 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3606 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3610 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3616 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3620 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3621 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3625 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3634 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3638 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3641 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3642 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3646 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3648 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3653 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3657 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3661 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3664 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3665 for the dependancies to be generated.
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3669 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3672 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3676 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3679 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3680 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3681 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3686 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3689 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3690 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3694 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3700 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3706 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3709 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3713 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3719 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3722 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3723 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3724 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3725 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3726 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3727 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3728 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3729 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3730 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3731 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3732 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3733 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3737 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3740 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3741 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3743 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3744 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3745 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3746 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3747 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3748 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3750 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3751 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3755 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3758 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3762 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3769 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3772 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3777 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3780 for building debhelper.
3781 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3785 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3792 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3795 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3799 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3802 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3803 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3804 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3805 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3806 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3807 it's always available.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3811 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3814 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3815 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3816 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3820 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3823 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3824 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3828 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3834 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3837 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3841 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3847 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3850 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3851 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3852 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3856 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3859 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3864 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3867 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3868 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3870 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3871 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3875 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3881 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3887 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3890 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3894 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3897 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3898 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3900 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3904 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3907 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3908 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3909 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3913 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3916 things if CDPATH is set.
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3920 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3926 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3929 seems to make sense for the transition.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3933 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3936 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3941 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3944 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3945 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3952 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3959 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3960 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3961 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3962 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3966 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3972 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3975 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3976 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3977 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3978 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3979 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3980 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3981 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3982 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3983 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3984 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3989 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3992 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3993 * README: mention doc/v2
3994 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3995 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3999 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4001 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4002 be using this script RSN.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4006 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4009 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4010 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4011 more than 1 init script.
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4015 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4018 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4022 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Changed perl version detection.
4025 * Changed call to find.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4029 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4032 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4034 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4039 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * Really include dh_installpam.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4045 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4048 * Wrote man page for same.
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4052 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4055 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4056 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4061 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4068 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4071 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4072 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4073 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4074 x bit was being set!
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4078 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4081 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4082 well. (Closes: 38900)
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4086 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4089 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4090 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4094 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4100 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4107 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4113 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4116 help from Julian Gilbey.
4117 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4118 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4119 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4120 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4121 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4122 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4123 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4128 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4134 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4141 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4147 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4153 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4156 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4160 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4163 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4167 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4170 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4174 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4180 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4183 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4187 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4193 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4199 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4202 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4203 may be deleted. (#35845)
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4207 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * Various man page enhancements.
4210 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4215 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4218 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4219 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4223 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4226 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4227 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4228 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4230 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4231 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4236 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4242 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Another very minor typo fix.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4248 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Very minor typo fix.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4254 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4257 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4258 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4262 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4268 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4271 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4272 variables properly (#34850).
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4276 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4282 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4285 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4286 (automatically generated by build process).
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4290 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4292 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4296 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4299 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4300 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4302 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4306 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4309 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4313 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * README: minor typo fix.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4319 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4322 leave it at that. :-)
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4326 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4332 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4338 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4341 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4342 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4343 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4347 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4350 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4354 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4357 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4361 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4364 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4365 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4366 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4367 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4371 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4374 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4375 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4376 Craig Small for spotting this.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4380 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4383 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4384 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4388 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4394 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4397 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4401 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4403 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4404 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4405 working on the last version of debhelper.
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4409 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4412 being made. (#23255)
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4416 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4422 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4425 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4429 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4432 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4433 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4434 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4435 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4439 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4442 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4443 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4444 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4445 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4447 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4448 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4450 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4455 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4461 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4467 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4470 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4471 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4472 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4473 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4474 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4475 suidregister actually supports it.
4476 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4477 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4481 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4488 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4491 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4492 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4493 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4494 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4495 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4496 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4497 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4501 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4503 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4504 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4508 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4511 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4512 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4513 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4514 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4518 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4521 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4523 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4524 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4525 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4526 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4527 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4528 effect, either. (#30118)
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4532 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4538 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4541 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4542 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4546 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4552 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4555 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4556 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4557 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4558 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4562 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4565 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4566 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4570 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4576 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4579 packages, painlessly.
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4583 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4589 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4595 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4601 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * The perl conversion is complete.
4605 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4607 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4608 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4609 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4614 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4617 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4618 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4619 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4623 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4626 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4628 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4630 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4631 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4635 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4638 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4639 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4643 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4649 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4652 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4653 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4654 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4655 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4656 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4660 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4663 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4664 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4665 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4666 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4670 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4673 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4677 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4680 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4681 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4682 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4683 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4684 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4685 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4686 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4687 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4691 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4697 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4700 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4701 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4702 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4707 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4710 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4714 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4717 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4721 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4724 sections of shared libraries.
4725 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4726 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4727 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4728 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4729 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4730 things you don't want them to.
4731 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4732 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4736 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4739 shared libraries. (#26414)
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4743 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4745 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4746 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4747 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4748 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4752 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4756 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4758 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4759 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4760 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4761 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4762 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4766 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4769 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4773 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4776 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4777 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4782 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4785 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4789 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4792 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4793 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4794 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4795 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4796 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4798 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4799 remove debian/files properly.
4800 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4801 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4802 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4803 * Removed bogus menu file.
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4807 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4810 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4814 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4817 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4818 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4819 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4820 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4821 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4822 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4826 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4829 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4830 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4831 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4832 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4836 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4843 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4846 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4847 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4849 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4850 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4851 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4852 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4853 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4854 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4858 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4861 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4862 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4863 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4864 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4865 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4866 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4867 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4868 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4869 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4870 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4871 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4872 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4873 passed any switches.
4874 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4878 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4881 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4882 at all for a long while.
4883 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4884 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4885 large chunks in the process.
4886 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4887 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4888 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4893 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4896 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4898 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4903 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4906 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4907 that don't always have the same files in them.
4908 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4909 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4910 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4914 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4918 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4919 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4920 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4921 updating 27 man pages.
4922 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4923 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4924 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4925 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4926 programs act on. (#25247)
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4930 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4934 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4935 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4936 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4937 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4938 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4939 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4944 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4951 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4958 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4961 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4965 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4971 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4974 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4975 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4976 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4977 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4978 package by accident.
4979 * Is version 1.0 next?
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4983 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4986 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4987 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4991 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4994 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4995 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4996 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4997 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4998 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5000 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5005 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5008 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5009 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5013 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5016 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5020 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5023 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5024 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5029 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5035 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5038 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5039 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5044 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5050 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5053 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5054 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5055 past week. Thanks, guys!
5057 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5058 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5059 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5060 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5061 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5062 would do in the same situation.
5063 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5064 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5066 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5068 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5069 permissions changed.
5070 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5071 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5072 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5073 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5074 files are treated identically.
5075 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5076 * Minor man page fixes.
5077 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5078 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5079 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5083 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5086 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5087 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5088 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5089 use -X multiple times, too.
5090 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5091 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5095 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5098 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5099 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5103 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5106 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5110 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5113 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5114 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5115 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5116 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5117 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5118 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5119 shape if you're starting a new package.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5123 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5126 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5130 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5133 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5134 because of missing symlinks.
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5138 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5144 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5147 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5148 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5149 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5150 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5151 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5153 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5154 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5158 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5160 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5161 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5162 to be changed after the fact :-)
5163 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5167 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5169 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5170 no version string after the -V.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5174 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5176 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5177 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5182 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5185 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5189 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5192 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5193 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5194 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5195 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5196 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5197 I always welcome corrections!
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5201 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5207 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5210 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5211 * Documented this new switch.
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5215 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5218 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5219 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5220 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5221 no packages use the old behavior.
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5225 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5228 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5229 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5233 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5236 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5240 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5246 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5249 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5253 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5256 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5257 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5258 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5262 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5268 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5271 into the source package by accident.
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5275 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5278 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5279 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5280 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5281 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5282 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5283 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5288 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5292 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5293 inspired to implement some of it.
5294 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5298 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5301 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5305 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5308 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5309 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5313 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5316 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5317 have done.) (#17598)
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5321 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5327 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5333 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5336 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5340 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5343 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5344 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5348 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5351 argument processor in perl.
5352 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5353 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5354 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5355 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5359 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5362 type directories. (#16933)
5363 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5364 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5365 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5366 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5367 are supported. (#16935)
5368 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5373 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5376 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5380 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5384 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5385 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5386 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5387 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5388 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5389 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5393 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5396 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5397 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5399 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5400 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5401 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5402 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5403 a given package, or -i or -a.
5404 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5405 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5406 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5407 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5408 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5409 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5410 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5411 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5412 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5414 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5415 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5416 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5420 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5423 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5424 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5429 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5432 does not have a section.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5436 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5439 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5440 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5441 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5445 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * Fixed typo #16215.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5451 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5454 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5455 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5456 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5457 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5458 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5463 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5466 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5467 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5468 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5473 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5479 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5485 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5488 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5489 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5490 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5491 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5492 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5493 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5497 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5503 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5506 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5510 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5513 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5514 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5515 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5519 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5522 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5526 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5532 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5535 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5539 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5542 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5546 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5552 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5555 postinst, postrm, etc.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5559 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5565 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5568 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5569 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5570 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5571 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5572 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5576 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5579 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5580 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5584 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5587 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5591 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5594 installing package files into.
5595 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5600 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5604 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5608 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5614 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5617 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5621 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5624 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5625 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5626 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5627 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5631 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5633 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5634 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5635 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5636 multiple binary packages.
5637 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5638 should rebuild them with this version.
5639 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5643 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5646 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5650 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5653 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5657 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5660 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5661 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5662 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5663 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5664 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5665 debian/README.debian.
5666 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5667 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5668 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5669 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5670 in a few situations.)
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5674 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5680 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5686 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5689 * Fixed several man pages.
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5693 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5696 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5697 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5701 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5704 is ready for general use.
5705 * Added man pages for all commands.
5706 * Multiple binary package support.
5707 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5708 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5709 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5711 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5712 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5713 auto-installed as parameters.
5714 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5716 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5719 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5720 the package build directory it is to act on.
5721 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5722 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5723 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5727 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5729 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5730 ready to replace debstd.
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400