1 debhelper (7.2.3-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
4 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
5 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
6 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
7 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
8 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. Closes: #517617
9 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
10 of specific upstream changelogs. Closes: #490937
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:57:47 -0500
14 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
17 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
18 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
19 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
20 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
21 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
23 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
27 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
29 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
33 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
35 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
36 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
37 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
38 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
39 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
40 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
41 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
42 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
43 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
44 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
45 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
49 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
51 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
52 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
54 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
55 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
56 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
57 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
59 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
60 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
64 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
66 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
67 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
68 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
69 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
70 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
71 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
72 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
74 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
75 that uses them. Affected options are:
76 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
77 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
78 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
79 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
80 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
81 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
82 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
83 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
84 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
85 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
86 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
87 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
91 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
98 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
104 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
106 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
107 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
109 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
110 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
111 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
112 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
113 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
115 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
117 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
118 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
119 rules (see bug #509756).
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
123 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
129 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
130 * Typo. Closes: #493062
131 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
132 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
136 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
139 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
140 empty files. Closes: #490937
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
144 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
150 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
157 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
160 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
161 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
162 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
163 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
168 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
170 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
171 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
172 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
173 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
177 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
180 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
181 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
182 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
183 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
184 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
188 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
195 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
197 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
198 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
199 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
200 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
201 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
202 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
203 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
204 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
205 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
206 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
210 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
213 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
214 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
215 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
216 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
218 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
219 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
220 breaking backwards compatability.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
224 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
227 message in perl 5.10.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
231 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
237 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Convert copyright file to new format.
240 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
244 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
247 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
251 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
254 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
255 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
256 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
257 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
258 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
259 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
260 logging by dh_listpackages.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
264 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
267 run and there are no packages of that type.
268 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
269 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
270 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
271 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
273 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
274 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
278 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
280 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
281 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
282 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
286 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
289 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
290 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
292 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
293 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
294 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
295 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
296 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
297 planned but not yet implemented.)
298 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
299 if the Makefile has such a target.
300 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
301 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
302 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
303 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
304 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
305 but not yet implemented.)
306 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
307 recommended default, especially when using dh.
308 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
309 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
310 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
312 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
314 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
315 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
317 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
318 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
319 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
324 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
327 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
328 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
332 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
334 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
335 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
336 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
340 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
346 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
352 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
355 just those installed by the program.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
359 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
362 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
363 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
367 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
370 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
371 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
372 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
373 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
377 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
380 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
381 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
385 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
388 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
389 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
393 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
396 with policy. Closes: #461392
397 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
398 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
399 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
400 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
401 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
405 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
408 Closes: #460340, #460351
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
412 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
415 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
416 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
417 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
418 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
422 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
425 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
426 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
427 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
428 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
429 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
430 package build directory won't work.
431 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
432 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
433 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
434 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
435 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
436 mode. Closes: #459426
437 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
442 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
445 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
449 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
453 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
454 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
455 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
456 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
457 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
458 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
462 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
465 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
466 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
467 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
468 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
472 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
475 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
476 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
477 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
478 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
479 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
483 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
486 debian/package.triggers files.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
490 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
493 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
497 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
500 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
501 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
502 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
503 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
508 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
511 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
515 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
518 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
519 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
521 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
526 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
530 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
531 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
532 * Typo. Closes: #441272
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
536 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
543 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
550 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
553 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
555 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
556 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
557 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
559 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
560 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
561 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
565 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
568 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
569 * Update urls to web page.
570 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
572 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
573 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
577 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
580 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
581 - typo in alternatives call
582 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
584 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
585 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
589 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
592 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
597 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
603 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
609 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
612 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
614 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
615 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
616 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
617 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
618 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
619 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
620 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
621 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
622 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
623 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
624 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
628 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
631 package install. Closes: #415717
632 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
633 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
634 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
635 script and then remove the python files.
636 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
637 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
638 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
639 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
640 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
641 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
642 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
643 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
644 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
645 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
646 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
647 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
648 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
652 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Correct typo in french translation
658 * Typo. Closes: #400571
659 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
661 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
663 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
664 Closes: #406921, #381940
665 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
667 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
668 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
669 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
670 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
671 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
672 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
673 specified). Closes: #381851
674 * Misc minor changes.
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
678 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
685 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
686 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
690 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
696 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
697 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
700 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
701 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
703 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
704 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
705 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
706 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
710 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
713 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
716 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
720 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
726 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
732 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
733 a difficult situation.
734 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
735 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
736 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
737 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
738 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
739 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
740 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
741 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
742 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
743 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
747 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Non-maintainer upload.
750 * Update of dh_python
751 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
752 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
754 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
755 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
756 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
757 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
758 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
760 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
762 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Non-maintainer upload.
765 * Update of dh_python
766 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
767 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
768 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
769 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
770 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
771 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
772 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
773 specific python version. Closes: #373853
774 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
775 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
777 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
778 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
779 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
780 the not too-distant future).
781 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
782 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
783 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
784 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
785 thus made the build fail.
787 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
789 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Non-maintainer upload.
792 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
794 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
796 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
799 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
800 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
801 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
802 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
803 package. Closes: #301424
804 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
805 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
806 fonts). Closes: #372686
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
810 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
816 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
817 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
818 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
819 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
820 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
821 above, but already depends on that.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
825 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
828 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
829 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
830 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
831 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
832 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
836 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
842 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
848 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
849 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
853 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
856 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
860 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
864 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
865 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
866 new version (0.24.1).
867 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
868 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
871 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
872 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
873 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
874 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
875 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
876 new directory on their own.
877 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
878 * Fix broken directory removal code.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
882 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
885 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
886 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
887 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
888 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
892 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
895 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
896 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
897 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
898 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
899 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
903 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
909 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Typo. Closes: #358904
913 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
914 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
918 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
919 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
923 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
925 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
926 || exit 0 instead of the intended
928 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
929 ignored. Closes: #337664
931 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
936 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
942 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
947 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
948 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
949 the dh_installdebconf manpage
950 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
951 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
952 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
953 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
957 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
960 version. Closes: #350607
961 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
962 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
963 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
964 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
968 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
971 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
972 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
973 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
977 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
984 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Minor bug fix from last release.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
990 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
993 language guessing. Closes: #193221
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
997 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1000 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1001 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1002 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1003 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1004 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1005 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1009 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1012 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1013 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1018 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1021 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1025 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1028 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1032 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1035 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1036 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1037 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1038 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1039 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1040 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1044 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1048 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1049 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1050 link. Closes: #346405
1051 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1053 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1054 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1055 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1056 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1057 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1058 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1059 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1063 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1070 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1076 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1079 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1083 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1086 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1091 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1095 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1096 installed. Closes: #342033
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1100 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1103 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1104 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1105 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1110 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1116 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1122 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1126 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1127 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1128 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1132 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1135 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1140 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1147 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1153 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1156 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1157 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1158 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1159 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1160 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1161 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1162 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1164 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1168 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1171 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1172 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1176 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1179 in standard man dirs.
1180 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1184 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1190 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1193 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1198 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1205 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1212 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1215 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1216 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1220 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1223 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1224 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1225 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1227 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1229 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1235 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1241 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1244 mode. Closes: #324161
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1248 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1251 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1252 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1253 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1254 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1259 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1262 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1263 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1264 is necesary for sanity.
1265 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1266 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1271 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1273 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1274 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1278 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1281 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1285 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1291 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1294 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1295 released, so use at your own risk.
1296 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1297 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1299 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1300 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1301 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1302 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1303 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1304 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1305 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1306 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1307 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1308 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1309 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1310 including twice per config file line now..
1311 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1312 and simplfy the rules file.
1313 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1314 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1315 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1317 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1318 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1322 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1325 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1329 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1332 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1336 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1339 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1343 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1346 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1347 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1348 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1349 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1350 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1351 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1355 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1358 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1359 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1360 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1365 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1368 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1369 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1374 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1377 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1378 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1379 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1384 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1387 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1388 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1389 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1393 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1399 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1406 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1409 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1410 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1411 unknown. Closes: #282924
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1415 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1422 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Spanish man page updates.
1425 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1430 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1436 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1439 * dh_desktop: reindent
1440 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1441 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1445 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1451 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1453 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1457 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1459 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1463 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1466 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1467 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1471 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1477 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1483 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1490 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1493 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1497 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1500 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1501 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1502 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1503 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1504 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1505 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1507 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1508 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1509 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1510 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1511 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1512 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1513 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1514 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1515 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1516 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1517 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1518 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1519 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1520 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1521 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1522 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1526 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1533 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1536 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1540 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1543 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1547 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1550 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1554 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1557 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1561 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1567 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1573 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1579 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1582 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1583 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1584 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1588 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1591 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1595 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1598 but occasionally right and necessary.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1602 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1605 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1606 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1607 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1608 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1609 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1613 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1616 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1618 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1619 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1620 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1621 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1622 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1623 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1624 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1625 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1626 postinst scripts for udebs.
1627 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1631 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1634 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1636 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1637 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1641 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1647 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1654 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1661 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1664 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1668 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1671 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1675 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1678 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1681 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1682 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1686 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1692 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1695 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1699 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1702 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1703 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1704 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1706 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1708 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1709 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1710 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1714 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1717 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1722 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1725 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1726 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1727 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1732 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1738 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1747 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1748 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1749 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1750 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1751 associated -dbg packages.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1755 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1758 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1762 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1765 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1769 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1772 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1776 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1779 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1784 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1787 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1791 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1794 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1799 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1802 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1806 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1810 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1811 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1812 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1813 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1814 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1815 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1816 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1817 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1818 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1819 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1823 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1826 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1831 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1834 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1835 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1839 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1842 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1843 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1848 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1851 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1855 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1858 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1865 out section number. Closes: #204731
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1869 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1876 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1882 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1888 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1891 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1892 removal. Closes: #204286
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1899 renaming. Closes: #203548
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1903 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1906 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1907 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1911 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1917 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1923 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1929 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1932 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1933 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1934 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1938 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1941 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1942 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1952 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1959 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1962 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1970 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1977 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1979 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1980 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1984 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1987 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1995 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1999 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2007 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2011 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2014 it break hard links (see #188663).
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2018 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2021 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2025 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2031 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2035 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2036 debconf-mergetemplates
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2040 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2043 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2047 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2050 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2054 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2057 * Update debhelper(1).
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2061 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2064 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2065 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2066 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2067 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2068 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2072 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2075 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2076 the shell. Closes: #178524
2077 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2081 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2084 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2088 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2091 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2095 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2098 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2099 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2100 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2101 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2106 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2109 files from installation.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2113 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2116 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2117 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2121 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2124 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2128 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2131 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2135 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2141 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2147 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2151 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2152 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2154 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2158 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2161 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2162 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2163 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2164 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2168 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2171 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2175 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2178 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2179 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2183 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2187 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2192 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2198 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2202 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2203 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2204 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2209 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2212 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2213 practice. Closes: #163303
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2217 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2230 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2233 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2235 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2236 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2237 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2238 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2239 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2243 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2246 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2251 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2257 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2264 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2267 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2272 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2278 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2284 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2290 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2297 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2300 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2301 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2302 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2303 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2321 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2324 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2325 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2329 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2332 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2333 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2334 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2335 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2336 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2340 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2343 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2345 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2350 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2353 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2357 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2360 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2361 right thing. Closes: #150644
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Stupid, evil typo.
2368 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2382 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2383 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2388 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2397 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2401 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2404 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2405 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2413 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2417 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2426 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2427 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Removing perl warning message.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2443 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2446 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2447 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2448 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2449 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2450 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2451 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2452 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2453 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2457 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2470 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2473 debconf-mergetemplate.
2474 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2475 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2479 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2482 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2483 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2484 dh_install, which ...
2485 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2486 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2487 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2488 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2489 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2490 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2491 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2492 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2493 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2494 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2495 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2496 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2497 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2498 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2499 other minor changes.
2500 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2501 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2502 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2503 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2504 course there's -X ..)
2505 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2506 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2507 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2509 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2510 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2511 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2512 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2513 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2518 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2524 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2527 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2531 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2537 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2543 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2549 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2555 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2558 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2559 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2560 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2561 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2563 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2564 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2568 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2574 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2577 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2581 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2584 upset. Closes: #131322
2586 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2588 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2591 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2592 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2593 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2594 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2595 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2596 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2597 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2598 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2599 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2600 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2601 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2602 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2603 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2604 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2605 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2607 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2611 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2614 - Better indenting of generated code.
2615 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2619 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2623 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2624 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2625 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2626 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2627 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2628 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2629 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2633 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2636 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2640 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2643 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2644 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2645 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2646 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2647 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2648 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2649 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2650 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2651 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2652 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2653 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2654 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2655 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2656 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2657 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2662 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2668 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2671 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2672 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2676 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2679 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2680 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2684 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2690 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2693 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2694 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2695 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2696 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2697 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2702 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2708 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2711 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2715 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2718 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2723 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2729 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2732 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2736 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2742 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2746 Also some indentation fixes.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2750 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2753 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2754 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2755 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2756 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2757 Closes: #106514, #85520
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2761 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2767 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2773 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2779 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2785 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2791 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2794 change it in debhelper v4..
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2798 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2804 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2807 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2811 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2814 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2818 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2824 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2827 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2828 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2829 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2830 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2831 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2832 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2833 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2834 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2835 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2836 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2837 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2838 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2842 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2845 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2849 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2856 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2859 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2860 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2861 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2862 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2863 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2864 program those options go to. So, for example,
2865 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2866 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2867 something complex. Closes: #89311
2868 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2872 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2875 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2876 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2877 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2881 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2884 through loop. Closes: #98598
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2888 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Missing semi-colon.
2891 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2892 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2896 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2899 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2900 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2901 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2905 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2908 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2909 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2913 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2916 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2920 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2923 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2924 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2928 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2931 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2932 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2933 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2937 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2940 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2941 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2942 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2946 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2949 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2953 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2959 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2965 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2971 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2977 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2980 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2984 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2987 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2988 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2989 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2990 followed. Closes: #85483
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2994 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2996 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2997 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2998 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3002 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3005 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3006 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3007 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3008 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3009 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3010 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3011 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3012 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3013 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3014 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3015 Closes: #88464, #77743
3016 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3017 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3018 us to deal with that gracefully.
3019 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3021 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3022 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3023 a while, Closes: #51225
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3027 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3033 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3036 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3040 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3044 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3049 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3052 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3053 don't make packlist files.
3054 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3055 debhelper coding standards.
3056 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3057 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3061 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3064 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3068 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3071 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3072 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3073 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3074 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3075 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3076 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3077 but is mildly deprecated.
3078 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3079 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3080 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3081 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3082 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3083 switching to statoverrides..
3084 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3085 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3086 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3087 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3088 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3089 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3091 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3092 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3093 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3094 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3095 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3096 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3097 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3098 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3099 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3101 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3102 variable names, pod man pages).
3103 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3104 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3105 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3106 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3107 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3108 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3109 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3113 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3119 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3126 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3129 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3133 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3135 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3136 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3137 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3141 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3143 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3144 they were previously ignored.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3148 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3150 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3151 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3155 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3157 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3158 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3159 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3163 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3165 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3169 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3171 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3172 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3176 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3178 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3179 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3180 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3181 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3182 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3183 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3184 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3185 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3186 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3187 it is an obsolete program.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3191 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3193 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3197 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3201 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3203 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3207 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3209 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3211 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3213 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3217 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3223 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * typo: Closes, #78567
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3229 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3235 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3241 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3244 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3245 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3246 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3247 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3248 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3252 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3255 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3260 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3263 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3264 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3265 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3266 backwards-compatability.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3270 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3273 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3274 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3275 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3276 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3277 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3278 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3280 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3281 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3282 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3284 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3286 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3287 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3288 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3289 should now be raised to severity important..
3290 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3291 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3295 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3298 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3303 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3309 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3315 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3321 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3328 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3331 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3332 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3333 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3334 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3338 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3344 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3347 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3348 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3349 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3350 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3351 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3352 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3357 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3360 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3364 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3370 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3373 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3378 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3381 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3382 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3383 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3384 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3388 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3392 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3395 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3398 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3399 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3402 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3404 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3405 the TODO entry about it.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3409 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3416 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3419 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3420 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3424 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3427 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3428 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3429 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3430 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3434 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3440 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3447 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3450 (this appears to be logal).
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3454 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3457 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3458 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3459 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3460 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3464 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3470 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3473 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3474 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3475 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3476 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3480 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3486 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3489 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3493 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3500 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3503 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3504 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3505 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3510 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3517 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3523 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3526 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3527 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3528 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3529 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3530 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3531 notice until v2 is complete.
3532 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3533 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3534 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3535 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3536 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3537 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3539 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3540 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3541 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3542 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3546 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3552 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3559 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3562 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3566 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3573 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3576 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3577 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3578 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3579 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3584 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3587 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3588 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3589 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3594 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3597 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3598 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3602 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3605 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3609 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3612 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3616 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3623 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3626 depend on the build and install targets.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3630 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3633 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3637 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3644 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3650 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3656 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3659 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3660 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3661 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3662 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3663 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3664 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3666 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3667 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3668 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3669 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3670 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3671 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3672 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3676 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3682 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3688 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3691 right place. Closes: #55065
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3695 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3702 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3705 * Copyright date updates.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3709 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3712 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3717 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3723 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3730 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3736 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3742 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3748 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3751 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3752 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3753 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3754 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3755 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3756 bits until all files have been registered.
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3760 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * dh_installmanpages:
3763 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3764 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3765 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3766 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3767 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3768 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3769 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3770 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3771 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3772 otherwise change the result at all.
3774 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3775 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3776 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3777 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3778 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3783 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3789 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3792 act on files that don't exist.
3793 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3794 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3795 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3797 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3798 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3799 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3800 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3804 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3810 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3816 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3819 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3823 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3826 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3828 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3829 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3830 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3834 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3837 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3838 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3839 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3840 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3841 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3842 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3843 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3845 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3847 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3851 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3858 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3864 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3870 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3873 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3877 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3883 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3889 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3892 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3893 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3894 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3895 I made some changes, though:
3896 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3897 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3898 that is a clear violation of policy.
3899 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3900 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3901 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3902 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3903 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3904 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3905 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3906 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3907 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3909 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3913 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3919 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3922 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3926 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3929 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3930 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3935 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3941 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3948 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3951 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3952 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3953 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3954 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3955 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3956 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3957 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3961 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3967 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3971 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3972 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3976 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3985 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3989 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3992 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3993 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3997 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3999 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4004 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4008 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4015 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4016 for the dependancies to be generated.
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4020 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4023 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4027 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4030 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4031 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4032 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4037 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4040 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4041 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4045 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4051 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4057 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4060 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4064 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4073 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4074 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4075 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4076 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4077 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4078 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4079 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4080 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4081 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4082 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4083 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4084 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4091 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4092 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4094 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4095 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4096 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4097 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4098 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4099 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4101 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4102 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4106 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4109 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4113 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4123 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4128 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4131 for building debhelper.
4132 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4143 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4146 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4153 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4154 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4155 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4156 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4157 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4158 it's always available.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4162 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4165 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4166 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4167 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4171 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4174 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4175 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4179 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4185 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4188 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4192 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4198 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4201 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4202 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4203 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4207 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4210 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4215 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4218 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4219 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4221 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4222 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4238 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4241 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4245 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4248 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4249 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4251 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4258 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4259 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4260 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4264 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4267 things if CDPATH is set.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4271 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4280 seems to make sense for the transition.
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4287 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4292 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4295 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4296 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4300 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4303 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4307 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4310 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4311 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4312 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4313 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4317 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4323 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4326 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4327 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4328 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4329 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4330 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4331 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4332 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4333 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4334 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4335 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4340 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4343 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4344 * README: mention doc/v2
4345 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4346 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4350 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4352 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4353 be using this script RSN.
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4357 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4360 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4361 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4362 more than 1 init script.
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4366 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4369 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4373 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Changed perl version detection.
4376 * Changed call to find.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4380 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4383 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4385 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4390 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Really include dh_installpam.
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4396 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4399 * Wrote man page for same.
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4403 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4406 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4407 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4412 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4419 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4422 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4423 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4424 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4425 x bit was being set!
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4429 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4432 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4433 well. (Closes: 38900)
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4437 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4440 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4441 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4445 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4451 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4458 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4464 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4467 help from Julian Gilbey.
4468 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4469 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4470 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4471 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4472 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4473 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4474 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4479 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4485 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4492 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4498 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4504 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4507 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4511 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4514 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4518 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4521 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4525 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4531 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4534 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4538 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4544 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4550 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4553 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4554 may be deleted. (#35845)
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4558 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * Various man page enhancements.
4561 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4566 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4569 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4570 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4574 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4577 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4578 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4579 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4581 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4582 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4587 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4593 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * Another very minor typo fix.
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4599 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * Very minor typo fix.
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4605 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4608 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4609 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4613 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4619 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4622 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4623 variables properly (#34850).
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4627 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4633 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4636 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4637 (automatically generated by build process).
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4641 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4643 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4647 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4650 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4651 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4653 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4657 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4660 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4664 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * README: minor typo fix.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4670 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4673 leave it at that. :-)
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4677 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4683 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4689 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4692 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4693 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4694 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4698 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4701 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4705 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4708 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4712 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4715 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4716 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4717 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4718 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4722 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4725 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4726 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4727 Craig Small for spotting this.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4731 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4734 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4735 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4739 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4745 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4748 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4752 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4754 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4755 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4756 working on the last version of debhelper.
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4760 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4763 being made. (#23255)
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4767 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4773 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4776 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4780 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4783 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4784 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4785 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4786 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4790 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4793 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4794 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4795 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4796 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4798 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4799 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4801 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4806 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4812 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4818 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4821 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4822 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4823 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4824 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4825 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4826 suidregister actually supports it.
4827 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4828 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4832 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4839 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4842 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4843 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4844 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4845 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4846 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4847 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4848 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4852 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4854 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4855 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4859 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4862 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4863 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4864 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4865 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4869 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4872 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4874 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4875 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4876 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4877 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4878 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4879 effect, either. (#30118)
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4883 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4889 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4892 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4893 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4897 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4903 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4906 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4907 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4908 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4909 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4913 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4916 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4917 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4921 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4927 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4930 packages, painlessly.
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4934 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4940 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4946 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4952 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * The perl conversion is complete.
4956 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4958 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4959 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4960 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4965 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4968 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4969 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4970 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4974 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4977 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4979 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4981 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4982 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4986 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4988 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4989 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4990 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4994 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5000 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5003 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5004 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5005 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5006 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5007 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5011 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5014 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5015 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5016 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5017 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5021 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5024 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5028 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5031 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5032 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5033 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5034 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5035 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5036 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5037 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5038 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5042 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5048 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5051 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5052 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5053 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5058 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5061 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5065 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5068 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5072 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5075 sections of shared libraries.
5076 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5077 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5078 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5079 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5080 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5081 things you don't want them to.
5082 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5083 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5087 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5090 shared libraries. (#26414)
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5094 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5096 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5097 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5098 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5099 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5103 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5107 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5109 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5110 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5111 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5112 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5113 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5117 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5120 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5124 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5127 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5128 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5133 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5136 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5140 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5143 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5144 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5145 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5146 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5147 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5149 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5150 remove debian/files properly.
5151 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5152 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5153 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5154 * Removed bogus menu file.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5158 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5161 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5165 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5168 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5169 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5170 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5171 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5172 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5173 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5177 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5180 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5181 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5182 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5183 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5187 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5194 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5197 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5198 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5200 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5201 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5202 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5203 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5204 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5205 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5209 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5212 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5213 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5214 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5215 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5216 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5217 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5218 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5219 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5220 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5221 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5222 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5223 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5224 passed any switches.
5225 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5229 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5232 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5233 at all for a long while.
5234 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5235 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5236 large chunks in the process.
5237 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5238 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5239 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5244 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5247 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5249 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5254 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5257 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5258 that don't always have the same files in them.
5259 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5260 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5261 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5265 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5269 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5270 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5271 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5272 updating 27 man pages.
5273 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5274 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5275 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5276 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5277 programs act on. (#25247)
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5281 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5285 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5286 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5287 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5288 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5289 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5290 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5295 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5302 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5309 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5312 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5316 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5322 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5325 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5326 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5327 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5328 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5329 package by accident.
5330 * Is version 1.0 next?
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5334 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5337 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5338 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5342 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5345 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5346 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5347 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5348 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5349 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5351 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5356 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5359 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5360 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5364 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5367 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5371 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5374 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5375 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5380 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5386 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5389 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5390 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5395 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5401 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5404 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5405 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5406 past week. Thanks, guys!
5408 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5409 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5410 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5411 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5412 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5413 would do in the same situation.
5414 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5415 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5417 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5419 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5420 permissions changed.
5421 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5422 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5423 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5424 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5425 files are treated identically.
5426 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5427 * Minor man page fixes.
5428 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5429 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5430 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5434 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5437 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5438 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5439 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5440 use -X multiple times, too.
5441 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5442 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5446 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5449 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5450 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5454 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5457 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5461 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5464 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5465 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5466 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5467 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5468 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5469 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5470 shape if you're starting a new package.
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5474 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5477 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5481 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5484 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5485 because of missing symlinks.
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5489 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5495 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5498 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5499 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5500 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5501 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5502 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5504 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5505 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5509 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5511 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5512 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5513 to be changed after the fact :-)
5514 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5518 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5520 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5521 no version string after the -V.
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5525 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5527 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5528 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5533 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5536 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5540 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5543 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5544 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5545 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5546 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5547 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5548 I always welcome corrections!
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5552 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5558 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5561 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5562 * Documented this new switch.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5566 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5569 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5570 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5571 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5572 no packages use the old behavior.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5576 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5579 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5580 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5584 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5587 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5591 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5597 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5600 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5604 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5607 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5608 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5609 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5613 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5619 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5622 into the source package by accident.
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5626 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5629 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5630 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5631 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5632 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5633 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5634 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5639 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5643 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5644 inspired to implement some of it.
5645 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5649 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5652 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5656 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5659 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5660 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5664 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5667 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5668 have done.) (#17598)
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5672 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5678 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5684 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5687 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5691 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5694 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5695 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5699 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5702 argument processor in perl.
5703 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5704 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5705 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5706 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5710 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5712 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5713 type directories. (#16933)
5714 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5715 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5716 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5717 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5718 are supported. (#16935)
5719 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5724 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5727 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5731 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5735 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5736 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5737 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5738 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5739 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5740 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5744 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5747 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5748 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5750 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5751 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5752 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5753 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5754 a given package, or -i or -a.
5755 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5756 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5757 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5758 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5759 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5760 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5761 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5762 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5763 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5765 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5766 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5767 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5771 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5774 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5775 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5780 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5783 does not have a section.
5785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5787 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5789 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5790 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5791 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5792 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5796 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * Fixed typo #16215.
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5802 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5805 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5806 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5807 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5808 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5809 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5814 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5817 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5818 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5819 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5824 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5830 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5836 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5839 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5840 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5841 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5842 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5843 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5844 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5848 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5854 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5857 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5861 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5864 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5865 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5866 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5870 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5873 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5877 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5883 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5885 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5886 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5890 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5893 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5897 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5903 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5906 postinst, postrm, etc.
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5910 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5916 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5919 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5920 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5921 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5922 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5923 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5927 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5930 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5931 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5935 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5938 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5942 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5944 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5945 installing package files into.
5946 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5951 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5953 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5955 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5959 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5965 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5968 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5972 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5975 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5976 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5977 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5978 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5982 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5984 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5985 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5986 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5987 multiple binary packages.
5988 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5989 should rebuild them with this version.
5990 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5994 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5996 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5997 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6001 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6003 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6004 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6008 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6011 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6012 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6013 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6014 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6015 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6016 debian/README.debian.
6017 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6018 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6019 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6020 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6021 in a few situations.)
6023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6025 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6027 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6031 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6037 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6039 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6040 * Fixed several man pages.
6042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6044 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6046 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6047 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6048 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6052 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6055 is ready for general use.
6056 * Added man pages for all commands.
6057 * Multiple binary package support.
6058 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6059 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6060 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6062 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6063 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6064 auto-installed as parameters.
6065 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6067 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6070 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6071 the package build directory it is to act on.
6072 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6073 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6074 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6078 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6080 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6081 ready to replace debstd.
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400