1 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
3 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
4 versions in case they're installed. Ensure that correct
5 shebangs are created by using `python' first during build
6 and install. Closes: #520834
8 -- Bernd Zeimetz <bzed@debian.org> Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:45:23 +0200
10 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
12 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
16 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
18 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
19 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
23 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
25 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
29 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
31 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
35 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
37 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
38 contributed by Modestas Vainius
39 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
40 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
41 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
42 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
43 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
44 that support it. Closes: #480577
45 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
46 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
47 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
49 - Adds support for cmake.
50 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
51 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
53 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
55 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
56 that use them. The options are:
57 --sourcedir, --destdir
58 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
59 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
60 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
61 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
62 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
66 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
72 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
75 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
76 default. Closes: #537140
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
80 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
83 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
84 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
88 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
91 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
95 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
98 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
102 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
105 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
107 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
108 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
109 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
113 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
116 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
117 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
118 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
122 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
125 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
126 warning or deprecation message.
127 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
128 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
129 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
130 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
131 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
132 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
133 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
134 Closes: #534639, #357434
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
138 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
144 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
147 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
148 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
149 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
150 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
152 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
153 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
154 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
158 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
164 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
171 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
174 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
178 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
182 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
183 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
185 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
186 file support. Closes: #494914
187 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
191 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
194 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
195 parameters. Closes: #527256
196 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
197 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
198 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
202 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
206 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
207 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
208 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
212 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
215 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
216 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
217 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
221 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
224 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
225 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
227 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
228 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
229 by triggers). Closes: #521181
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
233 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
237 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
241 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
244 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
245 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
246 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
247 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
252 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
258 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
261 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
262 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
263 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
264 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
265 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
267 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
268 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
269 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
270 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
271 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
272 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
276 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
279 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
280 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
281 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
282 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
283 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
285 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
289 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
291 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
295 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
297 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
298 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
299 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
300 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
301 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
302 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
303 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
304 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
305 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
306 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
307 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
311 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
313 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
314 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
316 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
317 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
318 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
319 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
321 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
322 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
326 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
328 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
329 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
330 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
331 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
332 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
333 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
334 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
336 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
337 that uses them. Affected options are:
338 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
339 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
340 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
341 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
342 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
343 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
344 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
345 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
346 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
347 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
348 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
349 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
353 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
360 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
366 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
368 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
369 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
371 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
372 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
373 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
374 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
375 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
377 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
379 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
380 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
381 rules (see bug #509756).
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
385 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
391 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
392 * Typo. Closes: #493062
393 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
394 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
398 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
401 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
402 empty files. Closes: #490937
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
406 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
412 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
419 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
422 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
423 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
424 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
425 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
430 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
432 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
433 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
434 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
435 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
439 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
442 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
443 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
444 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
445 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
446 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
450 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
457 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
459 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
460 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
461 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
462 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
463 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
464 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
465 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
466 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
467 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
468 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
472 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
475 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
476 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
477 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
478 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
480 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
481 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
482 breaking backwards compatability.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
486 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
489 message in perl 5.10.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
493 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
499 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Convert copyright file to new format.
502 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
506 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
509 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
513 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
516 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
517 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
518 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
519 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
520 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
521 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
522 logging by dh_listpackages.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
526 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
529 run and there are no packages of that type.
530 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
531 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
532 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
533 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
535 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
536 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
540 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
542 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
543 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
544 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
548 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
551 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
552 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
554 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
555 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
556 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
557 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
558 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
559 planned but not yet implemented.)
560 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
561 if the Makefile has such a target.
562 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
563 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
564 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
565 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
566 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
567 but not yet implemented.)
568 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
569 recommended default, especially when using dh.
570 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
571 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
572 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
574 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
576 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
577 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
579 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
580 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
581 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
586 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
589 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
590 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
594 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
596 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
597 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
598 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
602 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
608 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
614 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
617 just those installed by the program.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
621 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
624 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
625 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
629 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
632 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
633 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
634 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
635 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
639 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
642 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
643 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
647 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
650 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
651 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
655 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
658 with policy. Closes: #461392
659 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
660 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
661 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
662 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
663 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
667 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
670 Closes: #460340, #460351
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
674 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
677 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
678 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
679 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
680 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
684 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
687 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
688 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
689 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
690 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
691 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
692 package build directory won't work.
693 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
694 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
695 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
696 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
697 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
698 mode. Closes: #459426
699 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
704 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
707 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
711 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
715 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
716 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
717 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
718 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
719 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
720 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
724 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
727 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
728 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
729 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
730 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
734 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
737 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
738 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
739 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
740 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
741 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
745 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
748 debian/package.triggers files.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
752 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
755 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
759 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
762 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
763 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
764 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
765 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
770 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
773 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
777 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
780 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
781 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
783 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
788 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
792 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
793 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
794 * Typo. Closes: #441272
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
798 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
805 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
807 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
812 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
815 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
817 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
818 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
819 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
821 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
822 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
823 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
827 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
830 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
831 * Update urls to web page.
832 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
834 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
835 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
839 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
842 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
843 - typo in alternatives call
844 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
846 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
847 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
851 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
854 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
859 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
865 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
871 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
874 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
876 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
877 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
878 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
879 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
880 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
881 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
882 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
883 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
884 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
885 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
886 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
890 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
893 package install. Closes: #415717
894 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
895 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
896 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
897 script and then remove the python files.
898 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
899 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
900 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
901 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
902 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
903 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
904 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
905 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
906 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
907 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
908 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
909 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
910 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
914 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Correct typo in french translation
920 * Typo. Closes: #400571
921 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
923 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
925 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
926 Closes: #406921, #381940
927 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
929 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
930 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
931 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
932 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
933 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
934 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
935 specified). Closes: #381851
936 * Misc minor changes.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
940 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
947 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
948 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
952 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
958 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
959 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
962 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
963 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
965 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
966 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
967 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
968 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
972 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
975 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
978 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
982 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
988 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
994 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
995 a difficult situation.
996 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
997 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
998 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
999 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1000 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1001 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1002 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1003 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1004 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1005 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1009 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Non-maintainer upload.
1012 * Update of dh_python
1013 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1014 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1016 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1017 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1018 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1019 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1020 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1022 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1024 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Non-maintainer upload.
1027 * Update of dh_python
1028 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1029 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1030 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1031 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1032 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1033 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1034 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1035 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1036 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1037 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1039 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1040 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1041 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1042 the not too-distant future).
1043 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1044 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1045 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1046 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1047 thus made the build fail.
1049 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1051 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * Non-maintainer upload.
1054 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1056 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1058 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1061 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1062 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1063 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1064 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1065 package. Closes: #301424
1066 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1067 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1068 fonts). Closes: #372686
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1072 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1078 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1079 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1080 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1081 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1082 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1083 above, but already depends on that.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1087 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1090 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1091 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1092 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1093 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1094 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1098 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1104 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1110 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1111 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1115 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1118 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1122 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1126 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1127 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1128 new version (0.24.1).
1129 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1130 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1133 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1134 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1135 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1136 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1137 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1138 new directory on their own.
1139 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1140 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1144 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1147 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1148 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1149 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1150 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1154 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1157 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1158 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1159 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1160 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1161 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1165 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1171 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1175 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1176 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1180 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1181 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1185 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1187 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1188 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1190 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1191 ignored. Closes: #337664
1193 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1198 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1204 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1209 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1210 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1211 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1212 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1213 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1214 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1215 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1219 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1222 version. Closes: #350607
1223 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1224 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1225 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1226 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1230 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1233 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1234 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1235 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1239 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1246 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1252 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1255 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1259 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1262 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1263 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1264 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1265 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1266 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1267 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1271 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1274 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1275 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1280 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1283 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1287 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1290 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1294 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1297 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1298 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1299 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1300 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1301 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1302 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1306 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1310 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1311 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1312 link. Closes: #346405
1313 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1315 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1316 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1317 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1318 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1319 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1320 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1321 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1325 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1332 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1338 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1341 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1345 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1348 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1353 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1357 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1358 installed. Closes: #342033
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1362 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1365 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1366 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1367 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1372 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1378 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1384 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1388 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1389 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1390 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1394 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1397 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1402 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1409 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1415 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1418 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1419 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1420 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1421 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1422 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1423 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1424 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1426 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1430 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1433 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1434 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1438 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1441 in standard man dirs.
1442 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1446 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1452 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1455 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1460 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1467 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1474 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1477 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1478 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1482 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1485 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1486 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1487 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1489 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1491 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1497 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1503 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1506 mode. Closes: #324161
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1510 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1513 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1514 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1515 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1516 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1521 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1524 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1525 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1526 is necesary for sanity.
1527 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1528 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1533 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1535 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1536 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1540 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1543 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1547 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1553 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1556 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1557 released, so use at your own risk.
1558 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1559 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1561 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1562 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1563 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1564 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1565 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1566 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1567 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1568 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1569 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1570 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1571 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1572 including twice per config file line now..
1573 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1574 and simplfy the rules file.
1575 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1576 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1577 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1579 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1580 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1584 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1587 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1591 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1594 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1598 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1601 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1605 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1608 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1609 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1610 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1611 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1612 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1613 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1617 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1620 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1621 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1622 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1627 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1630 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1631 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1636 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1639 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1640 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1641 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1646 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1649 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1650 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1651 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1655 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1661 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1668 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1671 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1672 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1673 unknown. Closes: #282924
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1677 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1684 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Spanish man page updates.
1687 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1692 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1698 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1701 * dh_desktop: reindent
1702 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1703 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1707 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1713 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1715 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1719 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1721 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1725 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1728 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1729 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1733 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1739 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1745 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1752 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1755 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1759 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1762 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1763 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1764 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1765 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1766 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1767 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1769 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1770 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1771 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1772 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1773 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1774 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1775 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1776 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1777 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1778 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1779 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1780 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1781 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1782 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1783 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1784 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1788 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1798 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1802 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1805 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1809 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1812 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1819 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1823 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1829 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1835 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1841 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1844 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1845 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1846 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1850 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1853 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1857 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1860 but occasionally right and necessary.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1864 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1867 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1868 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1869 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1870 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1871 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1875 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1878 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1880 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1881 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1882 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1883 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1884 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1885 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1886 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1887 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1888 postinst scripts for udebs.
1889 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1893 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1896 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1898 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1899 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1903 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1909 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1916 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1923 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1926 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1930 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1933 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1937 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1940 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1943 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1944 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1948 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1954 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1957 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1961 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1964 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1965 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1966 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1968 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1970 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1971 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1972 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1976 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1979 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1984 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1987 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1988 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1989 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1994 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2000 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2009 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2010 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2011 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2012 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2013 associated -dbg packages.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2017 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2020 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2024 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2027 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2031 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2034 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2038 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2041 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2046 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2049 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2053 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2056 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2061 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2064 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2068 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2072 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2073 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2074 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2075 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2076 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2077 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2078 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2079 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2080 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2081 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2085 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2088 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2096 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2097 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2101 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2104 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2105 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2110 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2113 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2120 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2127 out section number. Closes: #204731
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2131 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2138 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2144 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2150 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2153 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2154 removal. Closes: #204286
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2158 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2161 renaming. Closes: #203548
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2165 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2168 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2169 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2173 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2179 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2185 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2191 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2194 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2195 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2196 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2203 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2204 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2208 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2221 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2224 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2232 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2239 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2241 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2242 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2246 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2249 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2254 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2257 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2261 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2267 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2269 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2273 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2276 it break hard links (see #188663).
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2283 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2287 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2293 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2297 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2298 debconf-mergetemplates
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2302 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2305 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2309 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2312 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2316 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2319 * Update debhelper(1).
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2323 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2326 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2327 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2328 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2329 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2330 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2334 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2337 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2338 the shell. Closes: #178524
2339 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2343 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2346 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2350 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2353 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2357 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2360 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2361 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2362 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2363 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2368 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2371 files from installation.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2375 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2378 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2379 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2383 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2386 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2390 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2393 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2397 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2403 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2409 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2413 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2414 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2416 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2420 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2423 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2424 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2425 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2426 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2430 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2433 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2437 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2440 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2441 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2445 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2449 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2454 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2460 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2464 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2465 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2466 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2471 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2474 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2475 practice. Closes: #163303
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2479 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2485 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2492 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2495 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2497 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2498 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2499 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2500 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2501 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2505 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2508 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2513 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2519 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2529 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2534 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2540 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2546 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2559 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2562 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2563 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2564 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2565 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2576 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2583 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2586 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2587 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2591 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2594 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2595 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2596 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2597 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2598 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2602 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2605 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2607 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2615 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2619 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2622 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2623 right thing. Closes: #150644
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2627 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Stupid, evil typo.
2630 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2634 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2641 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2644 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2645 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2650 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2656 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2659 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2663 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2666 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2667 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2672 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2675 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2685 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2688 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2689 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2693 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2699 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Removing perl warning message.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2705 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2708 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2709 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2710 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2711 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2712 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2713 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2714 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2715 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2719 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2725 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2732 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2735 debconf-mergetemplate.
2736 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2737 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2741 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2744 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2745 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2746 dh_install, which ...
2747 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2748 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2749 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2750 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2751 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2752 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2753 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2754 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2755 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2756 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2757 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2758 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2759 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2760 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2761 other minor changes.
2762 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2763 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2764 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2765 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2766 course there's -X ..)
2767 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2768 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2769 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2771 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2772 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2773 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2774 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2775 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2780 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2786 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2789 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2793 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2799 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2805 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2811 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2817 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2820 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2821 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2822 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2823 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2825 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2826 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2830 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2836 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2839 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2843 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2846 upset. Closes: #131322
2848 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2850 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2853 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2854 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2855 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2856 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2857 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2858 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2859 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2860 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2861 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2862 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2863 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2864 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2865 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2866 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2867 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2869 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2873 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2876 - Better indenting of generated code.
2877 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2881 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2885 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2886 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2887 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2888 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2889 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2890 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2891 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2895 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2898 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2902 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2905 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2906 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2907 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2908 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2909 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2910 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2911 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2912 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2913 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2914 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2915 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2916 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2917 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2918 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2919 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2924 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2930 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2933 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2934 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2938 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2941 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2942 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2946 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2952 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2955 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2956 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2957 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2958 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2959 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2964 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2970 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2973 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2977 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2980 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2985 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2991 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2994 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2998 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3004 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3008 Also some indentation fixes.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3012 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3015 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3016 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3017 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3018 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3019 Closes: #106514, #85520
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3023 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3029 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3035 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3041 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3047 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3053 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3056 change it in debhelper v4..
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3060 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3066 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3069 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3073 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3076 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3080 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3086 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3089 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3090 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3091 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3092 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3093 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3094 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3095 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3096 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3097 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3098 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3099 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3100 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3104 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3107 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3111 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3118 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3121 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3122 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3123 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3124 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3125 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3126 program those options go to. So, for example,
3127 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3128 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3129 something complex. Closes: #89311
3130 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3134 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3137 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3138 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3139 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3143 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3146 through loop. Closes: #98598
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3150 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Missing semi-colon.
3153 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3154 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3158 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3161 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3162 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3163 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3167 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3170 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3171 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3175 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3178 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3182 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3185 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3186 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3190 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3193 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3194 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3195 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3199 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3202 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3203 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3204 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3208 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3211 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3215 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3221 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3227 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3233 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3239 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3242 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3246 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3249 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3250 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3251 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3252 followed. Closes: #85483
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3256 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3258 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3259 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3260 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3264 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3267 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3268 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3269 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3270 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3271 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3272 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3273 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3274 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3275 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3276 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3277 Closes: #88464, #77743
3278 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3279 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3280 us to deal with that gracefully.
3281 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3283 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3284 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3285 a while, Closes: #51225
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3289 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3295 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3298 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3302 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3306 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3311 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3314 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3315 don't make packlist files.
3316 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3317 debhelper coding standards.
3318 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3319 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3323 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3326 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3330 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3333 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3334 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3335 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3336 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3337 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3338 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3339 but is mildly deprecated.
3340 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3341 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3342 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3343 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3344 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3345 switching to statoverrides..
3346 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3347 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3348 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3349 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3350 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3351 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3353 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3354 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3355 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3356 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3357 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3358 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3359 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3360 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3361 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3363 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3364 variable names, pod man pages).
3365 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3366 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3367 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3368 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3369 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3370 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3371 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3375 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3381 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3388 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3391 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3395 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3397 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3398 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3399 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3403 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3405 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3406 they were previously ignored.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3410 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3412 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3413 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3417 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3419 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3420 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3421 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3425 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3427 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3431 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3433 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3434 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3438 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3440 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3441 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3442 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3443 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3444 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3445 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3446 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3447 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3448 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3449 it is an obsolete program.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3455 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3459 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3463 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3465 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3469 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3471 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3473 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3475 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3479 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3485 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * typo: Closes, #78567
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3491 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3497 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3503 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3506 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3507 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3508 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3509 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3510 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3514 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3517 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3522 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3525 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3526 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3527 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3528 backwards-compatability.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3532 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3535 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3536 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3537 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3538 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3539 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3540 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3542 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3543 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3544 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3546 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3548 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3549 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3550 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3551 should now be raised to severity important..
3552 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3553 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3557 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3560 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3565 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3571 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3577 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3583 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3590 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3593 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3594 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3595 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3596 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3600 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3606 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3609 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3610 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3611 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3612 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3613 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3614 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3619 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3622 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3626 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3632 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3635 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3640 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3643 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3644 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3645 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3646 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3650 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3654 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3657 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3660 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3661 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3664 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3666 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3667 the TODO entry about it.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3671 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3678 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3681 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3682 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3686 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3689 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3690 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3691 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3692 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3696 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3702 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3709 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3712 (this appears to be logal).
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3716 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3719 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3720 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3721 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3722 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3726 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3732 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3735 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3736 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3737 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3738 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3742 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3748 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3751 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3755 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3762 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3765 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3766 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3767 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3772 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3779 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3785 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3788 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3789 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3790 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3791 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3792 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3793 notice until v2 is complete.
3794 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3795 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3796 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3797 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3798 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3799 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3801 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3802 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3803 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3804 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3808 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3814 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3821 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3824 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3828 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3835 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3838 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3839 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3840 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3841 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3846 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3849 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3850 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3851 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3856 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3859 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3860 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3864 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3867 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3871 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3874 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3878 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3885 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3888 depend on the build and install targets.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3892 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3895 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3899 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3906 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3912 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3918 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3921 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3922 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3923 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3924 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3925 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3926 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3928 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3929 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3930 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3931 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3932 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3933 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3934 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3938 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3944 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3950 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3953 right place. Closes: #55065
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3957 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3964 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3967 * Copyright date updates.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3971 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3974 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3985 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3992 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3998 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4004 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4010 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4013 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4014 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4015 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4016 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4017 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4018 bits until all files have been registered.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4022 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * dh_installmanpages:
4025 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4026 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4027 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4028 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4029 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4030 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4031 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4032 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4033 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4034 otherwise change the result at all.
4036 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4037 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4038 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4039 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4040 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4045 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4051 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4054 act on files that don't exist.
4055 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4056 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4057 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4059 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4060 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4061 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4062 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4066 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4072 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4078 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4081 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4085 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4088 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4090 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4091 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4092 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4096 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4099 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4100 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4101 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4102 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4103 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4104 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4105 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4107 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4109 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4113 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4120 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4126 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4132 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4135 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4139 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4145 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4151 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4154 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4155 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4156 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4157 I made some changes, though:
4158 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4159 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4160 that is a clear violation of policy.
4161 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4162 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4163 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4164 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4165 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4166 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4167 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4168 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4169 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4171 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4175 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4184 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4188 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4191 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4192 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4203 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4213 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4214 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4215 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4216 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4217 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4218 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4219 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4223 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4233 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4234 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4238 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4244 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4247 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4251 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4254 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4255 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4259 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4261 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4266 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4270 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4274 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4277 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4278 for the dependancies to be generated.
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4282 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4285 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4289 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4292 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4293 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4294 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4299 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4302 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4303 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4307 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4313 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4319 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4322 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4326 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4332 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4335 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4336 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4337 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4338 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4339 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4340 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4341 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4342 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4343 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4344 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4345 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4346 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4350 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4353 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4354 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4356 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4357 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4358 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4359 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4360 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4361 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4363 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4364 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4368 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4371 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4375 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4377 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4382 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4385 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4390 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4393 for building debhelper.
4394 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4398 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4405 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4408 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4412 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4415 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4416 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4417 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4418 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4419 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4420 it's always available.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4424 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4427 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4428 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4429 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4436 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4437 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4441 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4447 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4450 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4454 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4460 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4463 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4464 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4465 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4469 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4472 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4477 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4480 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4481 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4483 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4484 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4488 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4494 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4500 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4503 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4507 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4509 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4510 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4511 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4513 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4517 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4520 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4521 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4522 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4526 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4529 things if CDPATH is set.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4533 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4539 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4542 seems to make sense for the transition.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4546 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4549 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4554 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4557 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4558 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4562 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4565 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4569 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4572 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4573 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4574 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4575 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4579 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4585 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4588 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4589 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4590 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4591 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4592 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4593 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4594 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4595 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4596 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4597 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4602 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4605 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4606 * README: mention doc/v2
4607 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4608 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4612 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4614 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4615 be using this script RSN.
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4619 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4622 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4623 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4624 more than 1 init script.
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4628 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4631 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4635 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * Changed perl version detection.
4638 * Changed call to find.
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4642 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4645 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4647 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4652 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * Really include dh_installpam.
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4658 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4661 * Wrote man page for same.
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4665 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4668 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4669 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4674 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4681 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4684 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4685 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4686 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4687 x bit was being set!
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4691 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4694 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4695 well. (Closes: 38900)
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4699 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4702 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4703 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4707 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4713 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4720 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4726 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4729 help from Julian Gilbey.
4730 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4731 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4732 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4733 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4734 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4735 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4736 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4741 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4747 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4754 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4760 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4766 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4769 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4773 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4776 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4780 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4783 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4787 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4793 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4796 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4800 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4806 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4812 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4815 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4816 may be deleted. (#35845)
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4820 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * Various man page enhancements.
4823 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4828 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4831 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4832 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4836 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4839 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4840 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4841 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4843 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4844 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4849 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4855 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * Another very minor typo fix.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4861 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Very minor typo fix.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4867 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4870 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4871 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4875 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4881 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4884 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4885 variables properly (#34850).
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4889 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4895 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4898 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4899 (automatically generated by build process).
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4903 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4905 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4909 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4912 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4913 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4915 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4919 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4922 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4926 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * README: minor typo fix.
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4932 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4935 leave it at that. :-)
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4939 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4945 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4951 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4954 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4955 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4956 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4960 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4963 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4967 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4970 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4974 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4977 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4978 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4979 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4980 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4984 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4987 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4988 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4989 Craig Small for spotting this.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4993 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4996 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4997 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5001 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5007 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5010 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5014 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5016 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5017 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5018 working on the last version of debhelper.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5022 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5025 being made. (#23255)
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5029 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5035 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5038 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5042 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5045 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5046 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5047 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5048 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5052 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5055 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5056 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5057 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5058 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5060 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5061 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5063 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5068 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5074 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5080 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5083 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5084 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5085 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5086 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5087 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5088 suidregister actually supports it.
5089 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5090 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5094 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5101 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5104 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5105 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5106 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5107 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5108 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5109 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5110 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5114 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5116 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5117 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5121 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5124 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5125 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5126 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5127 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5131 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5134 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5136 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5137 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5138 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5139 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5140 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5141 effect, either. (#30118)
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5145 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5151 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5154 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5155 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5159 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5161 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5165 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5168 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5169 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5170 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5171 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5175 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5178 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5179 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5183 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5189 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5192 packages, painlessly.
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5196 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5202 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5208 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5214 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * The perl conversion is complete.
5218 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5220 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5221 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5222 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5227 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5230 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5231 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5232 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5236 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5239 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5241 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5243 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5244 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5248 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5251 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5252 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5256 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5262 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5265 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5266 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5267 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5268 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5269 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5273 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5276 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5277 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5278 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5279 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5283 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5286 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5290 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5293 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5294 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5295 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5296 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5297 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5298 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5299 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5300 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5304 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5310 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5313 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5314 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5315 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5320 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5323 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5327 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5330 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5334 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5337 sections of shared libraries.
5338 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5339 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5340 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5341 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5342 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5343 things you don't want them to.
5344 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5345 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5349 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5352 shared libraries. (#26414)
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5356 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5358 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5359 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5360 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5361 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5365 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5369 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5371 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5372 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5373 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5374 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5375 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5379 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5382 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5386 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5389 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5390 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5395 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5398 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5402 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5405 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5406 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5407 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5408 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5409 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5411 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5412 remove debian/files properly.
5413 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5414 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5415 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5416 * Removed bogus menu file.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5420 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5423 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5427 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5430 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5431 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5432 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5433 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5434 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5435 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5439 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5442 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5443 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5444 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5445 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5449 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5456 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5459 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5460 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5462 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5463 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5464 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5465 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5466 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5467 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5471 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5474 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5475 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5476 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5477 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5478 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5479 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5480 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5481 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5482 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5483 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5484 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5485 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5486 passed any switches.
5487 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5491 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5494 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5495 at all for a long while.
5496 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5497 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5498 large chunks in the process.
5499 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5500 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5501 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5506 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5509 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5511 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5516 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5519 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5520 that don't always have the same files in them.
5521 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5522 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5523 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5527 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5531 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5532 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5533 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5534 updating 27 man pages.
5535 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5536 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5537 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5538 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5539 programs act on. (#25247)
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5543 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5547 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5548 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5549 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5550 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5551 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5552 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5557 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5564 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5571 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5574 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5578 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5584 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5587 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5588 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5589 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5590 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5591 package by accident.
5592 * Is version 1.0 next?
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5596 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5599 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5600 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5604 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5607 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5608 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5609 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5610 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5611 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5613 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5618 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5621 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5622 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5626 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5629 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5633 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5636 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5637 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5642 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5648 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5651 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5652 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5657 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5663 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5666 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5667 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5668 past week. Thanks, guys!
5670 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5671 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5672 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5673 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5674 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5675 would do in the same situation.
5676 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5677 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5679 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5681 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5682 permissions changed.
5683 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5684 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5685 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5686 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5687 files are treated identically.
5688 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5689 * Minor man page fixes.
5690 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5691 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5692 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5696 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5699 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5700 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5701 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5702 use -X multiple times, too.
5703 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5704 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5708 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5711 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5712 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5716 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5719 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5723 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5726 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5727 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5728 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5729 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5730 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5731 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5732 shape if you're starting a new package.
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5736 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5739 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5743 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5746 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5747 because of missing symlinks.
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5751 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5757 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5760 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5761 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5762 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5763 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5764 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5766 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5767 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5771 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5773 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5774 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5775 to be changed after the fact :-)
5776 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5780 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5782 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5783 no version string after the -V.
5785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5787 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5789 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5790 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5795 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5798 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5802 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5805 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5806 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5807 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5808 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5809 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5810 I always welcome corrections!
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5814 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5820 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5823 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5824 * Documented this new switch.
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5828 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5831 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5832 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5833 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5834 no packages use the old behavior.
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5838 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5841 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5842 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5846 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5849 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5853 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5855 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5859 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5861 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5862 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5866 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5869 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5870 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5871 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5875 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5881 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5884 into the source package by accident.
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5888 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5891 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5892 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5893 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5894 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5895 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5896 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5901 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5905 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5906 inspired to implement some of it.
5907 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5911 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5914 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5918 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5921 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5922 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5926 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5929 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5930 have done.) (#17598)
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5934 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5936 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5940 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5946 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5949 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5953 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5956 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5957 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5961 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5964 argument processor in perl.
5965 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5966 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5967 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5968 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5972 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5975 type directories. (#16933)
5976 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5977 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5978 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5979 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5980 are supported. (#16935)
5981 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5986 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5989 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5993 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5997 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5998 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5999 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6000 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6001 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6002 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6006 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6009 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6010 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6012 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6013 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6014 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6015 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6016 a given package, or -i or -a.
6017 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6018 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6019 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6020 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6021 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6022 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6023 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6024 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6025 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6027 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6028 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6029 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6033 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6036 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6037 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6042 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6045 does not have a section.
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6049 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6052 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6053 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6054 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6058 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * Fixed typo #16215.
6062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6064 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6066 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6067 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6068 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6069 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6070 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6071 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6076 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6079 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6080 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6081 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6086 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6092 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6094 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6098 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6101 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6102 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6103 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6104 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6105 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6106 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6110 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6116 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6118 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6119 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6123 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6126 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6127 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6128 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6132 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6135 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6139 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6145 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6148 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6152 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6154 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6155 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6159 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6165 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6167 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6168 postinst, postrm, etc.
6170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6172 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6174 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6178 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6181 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6182 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6183 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6184 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6185 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6189 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6191 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6192 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6193 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6197 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6199 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6200 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6204 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6206 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6207 installing package files into.
6208 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6213 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6217 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6221 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6223 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6227 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6229 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6230 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6234 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6237 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6238 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6239 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6240 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6244 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6246 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6247 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6248 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6249 multiple binary packages.
6250 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6251 should rebuild them with this version.
6252 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6256 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6259 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6263 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6265 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6266 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6270 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6272 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6273 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6274 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6275 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6276 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6277 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6278 debian/README.debian.
6279 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6280 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6281 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6282 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6283 in a few situations.)
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6287 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6293 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6299 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6302 * Fixed several man pages.
6304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6306 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6308 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6309 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6310 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6314 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6316 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6317 is ready for general use.
6318 * Added man pages for all commands.
6319 * Multiple binary package support.
6320 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6321 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6322 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6324 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6325 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6326 auto-installed as parameters.
6327 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6329 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6332 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6333 the package build directory it is to act on.
6334 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6335 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6336 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6340 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6342 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6343 ready to replace debstd.
6345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400