1 debhelper (7.4.21) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
4 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
5 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
6 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
7 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 May 2010 20:01:19 -0400
11 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
13 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
15 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
16 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
17 in control file or debhelper config files.
18 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
22 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
25 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
26 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
30 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
33 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
37 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
40 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
41 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
45 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Updated French translation.
48 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
49 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
50 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
51 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
53 * Typo. Closes: #571968
54 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
55 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
56 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
57 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
58 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
59 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
60 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
61 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
62 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
64 * dh: Improve documentation.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
68 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
70 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
71 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
72 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
76 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
79 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
83 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
86 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
90 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
93 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
94 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
95 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
96 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
97 options that they do not support.
98 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
99 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
100 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
101 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
102 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
103 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
108 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
112 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
113 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
114 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
115 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
116 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
117 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
118 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
119 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
120 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
124 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
127 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
128 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
129 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
130 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
134 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Typo. Closes: #558654
137 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
138 installed. Closes: #558782
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
142 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
145 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
146 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
147 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
148 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
149 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
153 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
155 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
156 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
157 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
158 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
162 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
165 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
166 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
170 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
172 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
176 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
178 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
179 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
180 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
181 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
182 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
183 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
184 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
185 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
186 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
187 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
188 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
189 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
190 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
191 time soon.) Closes: #554509
192 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
194 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
195 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
196 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
197 document id. Closes: #555677
198 * Typo. Closes: #555659
199 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
200 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
201 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
202 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
204 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
205 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
206 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
211 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
214 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
215 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
216 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
217 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
218 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
219 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
220 translation (#494300 part 2)
223 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
225 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
226 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
227 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
228 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
229 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
233 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
236 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
237 (It was only run once due to logging.)
238 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
239 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
240 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
241 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
242 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
243 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
244 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
245 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
246 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
247 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
251 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
255 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
258 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
259 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
263 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
266 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
267 flag with arch all/any packages.
268 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
269 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
270 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
271 situation. Closes: #540794
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
275 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
279 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
280 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
281 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
282 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
283 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
286 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
287 the default. Closes: #538201
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
292 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
296 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
297 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
298 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
299 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
300 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
302 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
303 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
304 * Above Closes: #491117
305 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
310 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
316 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
317 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
318 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
322 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
325 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
326 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
327 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
328 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
329 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
334 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
336 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
337 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
338 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
342 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
344 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
348 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
350 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
351 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
353 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
354 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
355 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
359 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
361 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
362 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
366 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
372 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
374 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
375 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
376 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
381 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
383 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
387 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
390 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
391 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
392 created by using `python' first during build and install.
394 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
399 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
401 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
405 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
407 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
408 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
412 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
414 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
418 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
420 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
424 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
426 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
427 contributed by Modestas Vainius
428 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
429 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
430 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
431 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
432 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
433 that support it. Closes: #480577
434 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
435 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
436 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
438 - Adds support for cmake.
439 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
440 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
442 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
444 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
445 that use them. The options are:
446 --sourcedir, --destdir
447 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
448 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
449 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
450 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
451 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
455 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
461 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
464 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
465 default. Closes: #537140
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
469 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
472 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
473 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
477 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
480 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
484 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
487 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
491 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
494 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
496 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
497 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
498 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
502 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
505 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
506 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
507 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
511 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
514 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
515 warning or deprecation message.
516 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
517 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
518 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
519 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
520 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
521 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
522 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
523 Closes: #534639, #357434
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
527 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
533 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
536 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
537 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
538 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
539 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
541 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
542 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
543 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
547 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
553 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
560 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
563 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
567 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
571 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
572 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
574 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
575 file support. Closes: #494914
576 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
580 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
583 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
584 parameters. Closes: #527256
585 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
586 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
587 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
591 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
595 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
596 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
597 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
601 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
604 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
605 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
606 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
610 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
613 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
614 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
616 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
617 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
618 by triggers). Closes: #521181
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
622 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
626 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
630 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
633 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
634 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
635 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
636 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
641 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
647 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
650 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
651 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
652 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
653 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
654 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
656 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
657 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
658 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
659 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
660 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
661 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
665 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
668 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
669 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
670 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
671 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
672 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
674 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
678 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
680 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
684 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
686 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
687 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
688 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
689 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
690 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
691 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
692 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
693 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
694 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
695 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
696 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
700 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
702 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
703 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
705 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
706 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
707 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
708 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
710 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
711 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
715 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
717 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
718 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
719 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
720 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
721 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
722 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
723 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
725 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
726 that uses them. Affected options are:
727 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
728 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
729 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
730 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
731 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
732 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
733 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
734 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
735 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
736 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
737 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
738 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
742 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
749 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
755 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
757 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
758 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
760 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
761 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
762 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
763 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
764 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
766 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
768 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
769 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
770 rules (see bug #509756).
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
774 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
777 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
780 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
781 * Typo. Closes: #493062
782 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
783 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
787 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
790 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
791 empty files. Closes: #490937
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
795 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
801 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
808 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
811 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
812 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
813 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
814 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
819 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
821 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
822 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
823 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
824 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
828 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
831 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
832 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
833 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
834 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
835 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
839 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
846 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
848 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
849 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
850 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
851 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
852 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
853 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
854 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
855 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
856 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
857 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
861 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
864 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
865 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
866 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
867 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
869 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
870 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
871 breaking backwards compatibility.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
875 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
878 message in perl 5.10.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
882 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
888 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Convert copyright file to new format.
891 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
895 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
898 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
902 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
905 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
906 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
907 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
908 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
909 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
910 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
911 logging by dh_listpackages.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
915 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
918 run and there are no packages of that type.
919 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
920 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
921 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
922 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
924 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
925 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
929 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
931 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
932 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
933 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
937 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
940 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
941 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
943 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
944 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
945 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
946 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
947 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
948 planned but not yet implemented.)
949 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
950 if the Makefile has such a target.
951 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
952 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
953 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
954 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
955 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
956 but not yet implemented.)
957 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
958 recommended default, especially when using dh.
959 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
960 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
961 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
963 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
965 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
966 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
968 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
969 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
970 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
975 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
978 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
979 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
983 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
985 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
986 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
987 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
991 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
997 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1003 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1006 just those installed by the program.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1010 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1013 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1014 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1018 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1021 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1022 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1023 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1024 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1028 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1031 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1032 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1036 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1039 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1040 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1044 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1047 with policy. Closes: #461392
1048 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1049 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1050 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1051 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1052 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1056 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1059 Closes: #460340, #460351
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1063 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1066 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1067 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1068 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1069 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1073 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1076 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1077 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1078 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1079 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1080 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1081 package build directory won't work.
1082 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1083 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1084 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1085 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1086 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1087 mode. Closes: #459426
1088 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1093 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1096 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1100 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1104 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1105 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1106 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1107 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1108 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1109 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1113 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1116 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1117 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1118 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1119 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1123 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1126 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1127 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1128 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1129 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1130 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1134 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1137 debian/package.triggers files.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1141 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1144 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1148 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1151 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1152 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1153 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1154 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1159 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1162 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1166 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1169 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1170 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1172 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1177 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1181 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1182 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1183 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1187 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1194 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1201 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1204 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1206 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1207 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1208 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1210 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1211 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1212 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1216 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1219 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1220 * Update urls to web page.
1221 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1222 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1223 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1224 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1228 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1231 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1232 - typo in alternatives call
1233 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1235 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1236 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1240 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1243 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1248 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1254 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1260 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1263 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1265 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1266 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1267 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1268 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1269 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1270 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1271 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1272 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1273 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1274 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1275 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1279 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1282 package install. Closes: #415717
1283 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1284 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1285 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1286 script and then remove the python files.
1287 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1288 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1289 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1290 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1291 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1292 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1293 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1294 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1295 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1296 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1297 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1298 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1299 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1303 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Correct typo in french translation
1309 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1310 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1312 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1314 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1315 Closes: #406921, #381940
1316 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1318 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1319 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1320 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1321 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1322 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1323 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1324 specified). Closes: #381851
1325 * Misc minor changes.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1329 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1336 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1337 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1341 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1347 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1348 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1351 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1352 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1354 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1355 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1356 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1357 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1361 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1364 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1367 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1371 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1377 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1383 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1384 a difficult situation.
1385 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1386 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1387 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1388 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1389 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1390 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1391 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1392 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1393 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1394 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1398 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * Non-maintainer upload.
1401 * Update of dh_python
1402 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1403 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1405 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1406 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1407 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1408 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1409 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1411 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1413 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Non-maintainer upload.
1416 * Update of dh_python
1417 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1418 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1419 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1420 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1421 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1422 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1423 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1424 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1425 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1426 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1428 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1429 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1430 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1431 the not too-distant future).
1432 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1433 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1434 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1435 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1436 thus made the build fail.
1438 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1440 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Non-maintainer upload.
1443 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1445 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1447 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1450 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1451 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1452 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1453 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1454 package. Closes: #301424
1455 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1456 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1457 fonts). Closes: #372686
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1461 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1467 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1468 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1469 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1470 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1471 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1472 above, but already depends on that.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1476 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1479 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1480 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1481 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1482 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1483 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1487 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1493 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1499 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1500 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1504 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1507 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1511 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1515 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1516 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1517 new version (0.24.1).
1518 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1519 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1522 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1523 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1524 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1525 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1526 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1527 new directory on their own.
1528 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1529 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1533 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1536 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1537 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1538 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1539 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1543 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1546 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1547 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1548 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1549 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1550 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1554 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1560 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1564 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1565 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1569 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1570 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1574 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1576 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1577 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1579 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1580 ignored. Closes: #337664
1582 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1587 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1593 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1598 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1599 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1600 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1601 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1602 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1603 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1604 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1608 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1611 version. Closes: #350607
1612 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1613 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1614 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1615 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1619 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1622 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1623 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1624 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1628 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1635 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1641 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1644 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1648 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1651 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1652 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1653 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1654 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1655 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1656 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1660 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1663 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1664 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1669 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1672 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1676 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1679 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1683 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1686 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1687 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1688 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1689 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1690 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1691 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1695 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1699 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1700 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1701 link. Closes: #346405
1702 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1704 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1705 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1706 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1707 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1708 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1709 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1710 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1714 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1721 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1727 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1730 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1734 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1737 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1742 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1746 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1747 installed. Closes: #342033
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1751 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1754 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1755 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1756 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1761 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1767 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1773 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1777 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1778 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1779 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1783 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1786 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1791 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1798 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1804 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1807 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1808 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1809 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1810 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1811 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1812 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1813 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1815 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1819 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1822 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1823 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1827 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1830 in standard man dirs.
1831 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1835 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1841 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1844 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1856 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1863 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1866 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1867 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1871 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1874 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1875 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1876 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1878 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1880 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1886 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1895 mode. Closes: #324161
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1902 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1903 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1904 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1905 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1910 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1913 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1914 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1915 is necesary for sanity.
1916 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1917 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1924 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1925 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1929 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1932 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1942 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1945 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1946 released, so use at your own risk.
1947 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1948 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1950 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1951 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1952 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1953 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1954 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1955 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1956 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1957 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1958 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1959 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1960 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1961 including twice per config file line now..
1962 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1963 and simplfy the rules file.
1964 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1965 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1966 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1968 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1969 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1976 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1980 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1983 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1990 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1994 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1997 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1998 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1999 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2000 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2001 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2002 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2009 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2010 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2011 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2016 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2019 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2020 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2025 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2028 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2029 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2030 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2035 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2038 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2039 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2040 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2044 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2050 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2057 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2060 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2061 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2062 unknown. Closes: #282924
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2066 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2073 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Spanish man page updates.
2076 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2081 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2090 * dh_desktop: reindent
2091 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2092 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2096 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2102 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2104 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2108 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2110 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2114 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2117 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2118 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2122 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2128 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2134 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2141 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2144 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2148 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2151 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2152 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2153 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2154 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2155 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2156 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2158 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2159 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2160 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2161 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2162 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2163 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2164 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2165 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2166 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2167 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2168 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2169 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2170 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2171 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2172 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2173 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2177 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2184 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2187 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2191 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2194 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2198 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2201 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2205 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2208 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2212 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2218 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2224 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2230 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2233 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2234 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2235 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2239 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2242 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2246 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2249 but occasionally right and necessary.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2253 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2256 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2257 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2258 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2259 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2260 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2264 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2267 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2269 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2270 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2271 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2272 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2273 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2274 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2275 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2276 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2277 postinst scripts for udebs.
2278 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2282 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2285 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2287 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2288 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2292 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2298 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2305 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2312 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2315 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2319 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2322 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2326 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2329 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2332 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2333 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2337 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2343 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2346 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2350 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2353 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2354 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2355 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2357 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2359 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2360 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2361 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2365 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2368 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2373 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2376 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2377 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2378 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2383 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2389 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2395 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2398 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2399 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2400 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2401 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2402 associated -dbg packages.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2409 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2416 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2420 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2423 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2427 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2430 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2438 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2445 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2453 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2457 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2461 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2462 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2463 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2464 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2465 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2466 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2467 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2468 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2469 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2470 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2477 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2482 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2485 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2486 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2490 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2493 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2494 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2499 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2502 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2509 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2513 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2516 out section number. Closes: #204731
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2520 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2527 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2539 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2542 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2543 removal. Closes: #204286
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2547 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2550 renaming. Closes: #203548
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2554 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2557 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2558 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2568 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2574 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2580 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2583 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2584 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2585 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2589 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2592 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2593 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2597 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2603 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2610 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2613 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2621 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2625 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2628 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2630 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2631 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2638 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2646 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2650 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2656 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2658 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2665 it break hard links (see #188663).
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2669 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2672 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2676 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2682 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2686 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2687 debconf-mergetemplates
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2691 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2694 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2698 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2701 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2705 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2708 * Update debhelper(1).
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2712 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2715 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2716 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2717 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2718 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2719 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2723 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2726 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2727 the shell. Closes: #178524
2728 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2732 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2735 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2739 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2742 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2746 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2749 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2750 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2751 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2752 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2757 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2760 files from installation.
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2764 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2767 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2768 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2772 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2775 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2779 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2782 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2786 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2792 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2798 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2802 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2803 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2805 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2809 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2812 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2813 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2814 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2815 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2819 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2822 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2826 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2829 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2830 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2834 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2838 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2843 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2853 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2854 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2855 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2860 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2863 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2864 practice. Closes: #163303
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2868 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2874 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2881 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2884 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2886 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2887 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2888 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2889 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2890 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2894 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2897 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2902 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2908 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2915 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2918 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2923 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2929 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2948 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2951 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2952 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2953 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2954 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2959 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2965 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2972 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2975 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2976 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2980 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2983 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2984 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2985 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2986 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2987 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2991 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2994 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2996 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3001 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3004 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3008 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3011 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3012 right thing. Closes: #150644
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3016 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Stupid, evil typo.
3019 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3023 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3030 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3033 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3034 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3039 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3045 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3048 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3052 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3055 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3056 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3061 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3064 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3068 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3074 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3077 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3078 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3082 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3088 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Removing perl warning message.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3094 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3097 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3098 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3099 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3100 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3101 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3102 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3103 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3104 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3108 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3114 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3121 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3124 debconf-mergetemplate.
3125 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3126 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3130 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3133 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3134 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3135 dh_install, which ...
3136 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3137 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3138 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3139 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3140 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3141 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3142 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3143 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3144 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3145 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3146 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3147 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3148 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3149 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3150 other minor changes.
3151 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3152 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3153 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3154 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3155 course there's -X ..)
3156 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3157 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3158 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3160 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3161 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3162 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3163 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3164 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3169 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3175 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3178 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3182 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3188 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3194 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3200 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3206 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3209 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3210 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3211 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3212 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3214 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3215 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3219 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3225 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3228 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3232 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3235 upset. Closes: #131322
3237 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3239 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3242 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3243 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3244 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3245 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3246 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3247 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3248 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3249 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3250 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3251 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3252 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3253 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3254 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3255 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3256 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3258 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3262 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3265 - Better indenting of generated code.
3266 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3270 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3274 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3275 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3276 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3277 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3278 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3279 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3280 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3284 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3287 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3291 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3294 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3295 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3296 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3297 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3298 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3299 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3300 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3301 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3302 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3303 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3304 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3305 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3306 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3307 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3308 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3313 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3319 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3322 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3323 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3327 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3330 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3331 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3335 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3341 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3344 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3345 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3346 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3347 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3348 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3353 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3359 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3362 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3366 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3369 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3374 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3380 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3383 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3387 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3393 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3397 Also some indentation fixes.
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3401 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3404 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3405 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3406 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3407 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3408 Closes: #106514, #85520
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3412 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3418 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3424 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3430 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3436 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3442 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3445 change it in debhelper v4..
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3449 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3455 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3458 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3462 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3465 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3469 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3475 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3478 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3479 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3480 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3481 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3482 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3483 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3484 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3485 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3486 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3487 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3488 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3489 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3493 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3496 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3500 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3507 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3510 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3511 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3512 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3513 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3514 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3515 program those options go to. So, for example,
3516 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3517 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3518 something complex. Closes: #89311
3519 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3523 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3526 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3527 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3528 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3532 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3535 through loop. Closes: #98598
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3539 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Missing semi-colon.
3542 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3543 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3547 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3550 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3551 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3552 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3556 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3559 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3560 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3564 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3567 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3571 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3574 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3575 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3579 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3582 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3583 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3584 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3588 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3591 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3592 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3593 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3597 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3600 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3604 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3610 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3616 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3622 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3628 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3631 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3635 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3638 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3639 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3640 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3641 followed. Closes: #85483
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3645 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3647 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3648 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3649 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3653 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3656 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3657 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3658 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3659 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3660 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3661 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3662 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3663 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3664 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3665 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3666 Closes: #88464, #77743
3667 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3668 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3669 us to deal with that gracefully.
3670 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3672 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3673 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3674 a while, Closes: #51225
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3678 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3684 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3687 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3691 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3695 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3700 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3703 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3704 don't make packlist files.
3705 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3706 debhelper coding standards.
3707 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3708 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3712 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3715 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3719 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3722 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3723 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3724 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3725 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3726 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3727 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3728 but is mildly deprecated.
3729 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3730 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3731 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3732 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3733 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3734 switching to statoverrides..
3735 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3736 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3737 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3738 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3739 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3740 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3742 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3743 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3744 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3745 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3746 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3747 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3748 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3749 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3750 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3752 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3753 variable names, pod man pages).
3754 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3755 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3756 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3757 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3758 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3759 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3760 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3764 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3777 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3780 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3784 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3786 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3787 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3788 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3792 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3794 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3795 they were previously ignored.
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3799 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3801 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3802 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3806 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3808 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3809 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3810 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3814 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3816 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3820 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3822 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3823 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3827 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3829 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3830 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3831 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3832 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3833 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3834 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3835 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3836 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3837 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3838 it is an obsolete program.
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3842 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3844 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3848 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3852 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3854 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3858 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3860 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3862 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3864 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3874 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * typo: Closes, #78567
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3880 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3886 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3892 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3895 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3896 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3897 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3898 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3899 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3903 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3906 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3911 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3914 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3915 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3916 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3917 backwards-compatibility.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3921 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3924 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3925 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3926 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3927 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3928 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3929 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3931 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3932 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3933 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3935 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3937 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3938 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3939 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3940 should now be raised to severity important..
3941 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3942 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3946 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3949 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3954 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3960 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3966 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3972 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3982 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3983 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3984 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3985 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3989 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3995 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3998 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3999 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4000 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4001 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4002 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4003 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4008 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4011 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4015 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4021 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4024 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4029 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4032 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4033 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4034 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4035 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4039 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4043 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4046 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4049 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4050 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4053 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4055 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4056 the TODO entry about it.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4070 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4071 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4075 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4078 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4079 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4080 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4081 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4085 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4098 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4101 (this appears to be logal).
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4105 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4108 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4109 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4110 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4111 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4115 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4124 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4125 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4126 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4127 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4131 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4137 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4140 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4144 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4151 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4154 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4155 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4156 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4161 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4168 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4174 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4177 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4178 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4179 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4180 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4181 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4182 notice until v2 is complete.
4183 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4184 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4185 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4186 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4187 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4188 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4190 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4191 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4192 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4193 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4203 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4213 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4217 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4224 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4227 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4228 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4229 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4230 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4235 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4238 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4239 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4240 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4245 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4248 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4249 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4256 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4260 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4263 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4274 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4277 depend on the build and install targets.
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4281 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4284 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4301 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4307 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4310 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4311 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4312 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4313 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4314 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4315 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4317 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4318 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4319 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4320 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4321 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4322 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4323 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4327 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4333 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4339 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4342 right place. Closes: #55065
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4346 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4353 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4356 * Copyright date updates.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4360 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4363 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4368 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4374 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4381 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4387 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4393 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4399 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4402 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4403 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4404 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4405 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4406 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4407 bits until all files have been registered.
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4411 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * dh_installmanpages:
4414 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4415 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4416 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4417 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4418 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4419 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4420 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4421 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4422 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4423 otherwise change the result at all.
4425 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4426 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4427 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4428 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4429 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4434 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4440 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4443 act on files that don't exist.
4444 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4445 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4446 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4448 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4449 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4450 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4451 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4455 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4461 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4467 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4470 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4474 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4477 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4479 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4480 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4481 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4485 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4488 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4489 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4490 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4491 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4492 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4493 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4494 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4496 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4498 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4502 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4509 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4515 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4521 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4524 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4528 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4540 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4543 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4544 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4545 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4546 I made some changes, though:
4547 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4548 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4549 that is a clear violation of policy.
4550 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4551 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4552 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4553 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4554 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4555 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4556 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4557 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4558 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4560 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4564 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4570 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4573 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4577 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4580 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4581 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4586 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4592 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4599 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4602 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4603 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4604 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4605 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4606 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4607 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4608 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4612 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4618 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4622 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4623 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4633 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4636 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4640 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4643 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4644 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4648 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4650 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4655 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4659 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4663 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4666 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4667 for the dependancies to be generated.
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4671 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4674 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4678 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4681 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4682 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4683 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4691 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4692 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4696 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4702 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4708 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4711 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4715 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4721 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4724 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4725 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4726 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4727 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4728 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4729 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4730 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4731 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4732 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4733 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4734 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4735 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4742 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4743 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4745 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4746 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4747 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4748 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4749 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4750 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4752 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4753 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4757 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4760 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4764 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4771 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4774 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4779 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4782 for building debhelper.
4783 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4787 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4794 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4797 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4801 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4804 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4805 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4806 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4807 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4808 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4809 it's always available.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4813 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4816 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4817 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4818 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4822 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4825 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4826 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4830 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4836 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4839 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4843 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4849 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4852 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4853 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4854 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4858 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4861 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4866 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4869 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4870 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4872 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4873 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4877 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4883 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4889 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4892 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4896 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4899 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4900 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4902 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4906 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4909 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4910 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4911 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4915 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4918 things if CDPATH is set.
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4922 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4928 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4931 seems to make sense for the transition.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4935 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4938 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4943 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4946 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4947 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4951 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4954 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4958 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4961 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4962 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4963 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4964 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4968 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4974 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4977 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4978 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4979 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4980 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4981 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4982 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4983 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4984 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4985 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4986 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4991 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4994 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4995 * README: mention doc/v2
4996 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4997 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5001 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5003 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5004 be using this script RSN.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5008 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5011 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5012 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5013 more than 1 init script.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5017 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5020 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5024 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * Changed perl version detection.
5027 * Changed call to find.
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5031 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5034 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5036 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5041 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * Really include dh_installpam.
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5047 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5050 * Wrote man page for same.
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5054 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5057 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5058 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5063 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5070 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5073 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5074 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5075 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5076 x bit was being set!
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5080 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5083 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5084 well. (Closes: 38900)
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5088 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5091 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5092 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5096 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5102 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5109 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5115 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5118 help from Julian Gilbey.
5119 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5120 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5121 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5122 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5123 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5124 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5125 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5130 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5136 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5143 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5149 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5155 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5158 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5162 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5165 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5169 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5172 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5176 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5182 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5185 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5189 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5195 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5201 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5204 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5205 may be deleted. (#35845)
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5209 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * Various man page enhancements.
5212 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5217 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5220 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5221 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5225 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5228 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5229 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5230 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5232 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5233 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5238 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5244 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * Another very minor typo fix.
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5250 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * Very minor typo fix.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5256 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5259 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5260 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5264 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5270 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5273 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5274 variables properly (#34850).
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5278 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5284 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5287 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5288 (automatically generated by build process).
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5292 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5294 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5298 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5301 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5302 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5304 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5308 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5311 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5315 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * README: minor typo fix.
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5321 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5324 leave it at that. :-)
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5328 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5334 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5340 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5343 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5344 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5345 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5349 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5352 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5356 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5359 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5363 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5366 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5367 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5368 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5369 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5373 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5376 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5377 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5378 Craig Small for spotting this.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5382 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5385 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5386 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5390 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5396 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5399 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5403 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5405 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5406 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5407 working on the last version of debhelper.
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5411 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5414 being made. (#23255)
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5418 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5424 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5427 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5431 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5434 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5435 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5436 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5437 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5441 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5444 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5445 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5446 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5447 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5449 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5450 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5452 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5457 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5463 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5469 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5472 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5473 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5474 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5475 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5476 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5477 suidregister actually supports it.
5478 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5479 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5483 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5490 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5493 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5494 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5495 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5496 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5497 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5498 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5499 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5503 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5505 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5506 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5510 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5513 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5514 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5515 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5516 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5520 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5523 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5525 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5526 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5527 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5528 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5529 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5530 effect, either. (#30118)
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5534 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5540 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5543 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5544 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5548 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5554 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5557 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5558 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5559 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5560 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5564 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5567 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5568 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5572 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5578 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5581 packages, painlessly.
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5585 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5591 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5597 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5603 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5605 * The perl conversion is complete.
5607 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5609 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5610 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5611 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5616 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5619 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5620 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5621 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5625 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5628 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5630 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5632 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5633 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5637 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5640 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5641 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5645 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5651 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5654 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5655 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5656 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5657 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5658 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5662 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5665 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5666 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5667 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5668 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5672 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5675 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5679 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5682 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5683 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5684 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5685 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5686 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5687 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5688 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5689 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5693 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5699 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5702 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5703 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5704 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5709 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5712 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5716 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5719 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5723 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5726 sections of shared libraries.
5727 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5728 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5729 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5730 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5731 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5732 things you don't want them to.
5733 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5734 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5738 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5741 shared libraries. (#26414)
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5745 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5747 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5748 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5749 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5750 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5754 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5758 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5760 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5761 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5762 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5763 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5764 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5768 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5771 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5775 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5778 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5779 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5784 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5787 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5791 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5794 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5795 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5796 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5797 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5798 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5800 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5801 remove debian/files properly.
5802 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5803 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5804 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5805 * Removed bogus menu file.
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5809 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5812 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5816 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5819 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5820 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5821 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5822 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5823 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5824 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5828 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5831 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5832 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5833 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5834 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5838 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5845 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5848 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5849 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5851 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5852 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5853 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5854 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5855 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5856 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5860 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5863 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5864 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5865 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5866 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5867 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5868 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5869 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5870 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5871 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5872 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5873 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5874 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5875 passed any switches.
5876 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5880 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5883 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5884 at all for a long while.
5885 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5886 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5887 large chunks in the process.
5888 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5889 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5890 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5895 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5898 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5900 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5905 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5908 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5909 that don't always have the same files in them.
5910 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5911 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5912 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5916 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5920 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5921 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5922 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5923 updating 27 man pages.
5924 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5925 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5926 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5927 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5928 programs act on. (#25247)
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5932 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5936 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5937 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5938 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5939 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5940 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5941 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5946 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5953 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5960 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5962 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5963 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5967 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5969 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5973 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5976 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5977 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5978 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5979 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5980 package by accident.
5981 * Is version 1.0 next?
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5985 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5988 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5989 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5993 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5996 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5997 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5998 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5999 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6000 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6002 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6007 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6009 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6010 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6011 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6015 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6018 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6022 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6025 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6026 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6031 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6037 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6039 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6040 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6041 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6046 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6052 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6055 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6056 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6057 past week. Thanks, guys!
6059 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6060 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6061 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6062 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6063 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6064 would do in the same situation.
6065 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6066 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6068 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6070 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6071 permissions changed.
6072 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6073 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6074 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6075 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6076 files are treated identically.
6077 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6078 * Minor man page fixes.
6079 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6080 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6081 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6085 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6088 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6089 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6090 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6091 use -X multiple times, too.
6092 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6093 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6097 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6099 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6100 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6101 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6105 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6108 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6112 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6114 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6115 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6116 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6117 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6118 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6119 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6120 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6121 shape if you're starting a new package.
6123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6125 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6127 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6128 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6132 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6135 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6136 because of missing symlinks.
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6140 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6146 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6149 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6150 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6151 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6152 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6153 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6155 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6156 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6160 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6162 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6163 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6164 to be changed after the fact :-)
6165 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6169 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6171 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6172 no version string after the -V.
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6176 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6178 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6179 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6184 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6186 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6187 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6191 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6193 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6194 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6195 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6196 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6197 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6198 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6199 I always welcome corrections!
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6203 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6209 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6212 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6213 * Documented this new switch.
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6217 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6220 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6221 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6222 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6223 no packages use the old behavior.
6225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6227 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6229 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6230 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6231 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6235 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6237 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6238 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6242 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6244 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6248 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6250 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6251 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6255 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6257 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6258 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6259 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6260 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6264 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6266 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6270 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6272 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6273 into the source package by accident.
6275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6277 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6279 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6280 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6281 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6282 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6283 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6284 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6285 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6290 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6294 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6295 inspired to implement some of it.
6296 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6300 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6303 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6307 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6309 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6310 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6311 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6315 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6318 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6319 have done.) (#17598)
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6323 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6329 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6331 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6335 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6337 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6338 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6342 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6345 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6346 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6350 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6353 argument processor in perl.
6354 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6355 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6356 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6357 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6361 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6364 type directories. (#16933)
6365 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6366 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6367 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6368 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6369 are supported. (#16935)
6370 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6375 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6377 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6378 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6382 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6384 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6386 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6387 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6388 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6389 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6390 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6391 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6395 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6397 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6398 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6399 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6401 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6402 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6403 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6404 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6405 a given package, or -i or -a.
6406 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6407 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6408 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6409 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6410 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6411 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6412 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6413 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6414 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6416 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6417 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6418 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6422 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6425 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6426 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6431 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6433 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6434 does not have a section.
6436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6438 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6440 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6441 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6442 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6443 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6447 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * Fixed typo #16215.
6451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6453 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6455 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6456 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6457 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6458 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6459 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6460 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6465 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6467 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6468 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6469 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6470 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6475 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6477 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6481 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6483 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6487 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6490 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6491 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6492 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6493 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6494 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6495 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6499 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6501 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6505 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6507 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6508 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6512 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6514 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6515 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6516 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6517 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6521 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6523 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6524 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6528 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6530 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6534 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6536 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6537 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6541 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6544 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6548 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6550 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6554 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6556 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6557 postinst, postrm, etc.
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6561 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6567 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6569 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6570 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6571 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6572 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6573 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6574 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6578 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6580 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6581 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6582 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6586 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6588 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6589 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6593 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6595 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6596 installing package files into.
6597 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6602 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6606 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6610 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6616 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6618 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6619 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6623 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6625 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6626 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6627 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6628 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6629 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6633 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6635 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6636 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6637 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6638 multiple binary packages.
6639 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6640 should rebuild them with this version.
6641 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6645 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6647 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6648 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6652 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6654 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6655 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6659 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6661 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6662 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6663 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6664 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6665 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6666 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6667 debian/README.debian.
6668 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6669 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6670 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6671 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6672 in a few situations.)
6674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6676 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6678 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6682 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6684 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6688 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6690 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6691 * Fixed several man pages.
6693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6695 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6697 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6698 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6699 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6703 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6705 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6706 is ready for general use.
6707 * Added man pages for all commands.
6708 * Multiple binary package support.
6709 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6710 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6711 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6713 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6714 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6715 auto-installed as parameters.
6716 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6718 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6721 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6722 the package build directory it is to act on.
6723 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6724 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6725 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6729 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6731 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6732 ready to replace debstd.
6734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400