1 debhelper (7.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
4 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
5 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
6 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
7 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
9 * Remove rules.simple example, there's no need to use explcit targets
11 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
12 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
13 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
14 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
15 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
16 rules (see bug #509756).
17 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
18 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
19 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:26:36 -0500
23 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
25 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
26 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
28 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
29 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
30 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
31 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
33 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
34 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
38 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
40 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
41 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
42 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
43 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
44 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
45 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
46 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
48 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
49 that uses them. Affected options are:
50 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
51 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
52 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
53 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
54 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
55 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
56 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
57 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
58 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
59 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
60 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
61 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
65 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
71 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
72 * Typo. Closes: #493062
73 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
74 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
78 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
81 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
82 empty files. Closes: #490937
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
86 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
92 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
99 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
102 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
103 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
104 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
105 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
110 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
112 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
113 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
114 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
115 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
119 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
121 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
122 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
123 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
124 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
125 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
126 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
130 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
137 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
139 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
140 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
141 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
142 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
143 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
144 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
145 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
146 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
147 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
148 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
152 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
155 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
156 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
157 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
158 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
160 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
161 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
162 breaking backwards compatability.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
166 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
169 message in perl 5.10.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
173 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
179 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Convert copyright file to new format.
182 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
186 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
189 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
193 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
196 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
197 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
198 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
199 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
200 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
201 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
202 logging by dh_listpackages.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
206 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
209 run and there are no packages of that type.
210 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
211 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
212 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
213 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
215 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
216 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
220 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
222 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
223 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
224 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
228 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
231 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
232 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
234 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
235 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
236 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
237 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
238 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
239 planned but not yet implemented.)
240 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
241 if the Makefile has such a target.
242 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
243 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
244 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
245 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
246 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
247 but not yet implemented.)
248 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
249 recommended default, especially when using dh.
250 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
251 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
252 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
254 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
256 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
257 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
259 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
260 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
261 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
266 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
269 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
270 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
274 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
276 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
277 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
278 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
282 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
288 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
294 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
297 just those installed by the program.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
301 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
304 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
305 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
309 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
312 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
313 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
314 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
315 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
319 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
322 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
323 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
327 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
330 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
331 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
335 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
338 with policy. Closes: #461392
339 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
340 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
341 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
342 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
343 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
347 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
350 Closes: #460340, #460351
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
354 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
357 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
358 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
359 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
360 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
364 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
367 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
368 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
369 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
370 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
371 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
372 package build directory won't work.
373 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
374 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
375 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
376 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
377 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
378 mode. Closes: #459426
379 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
384 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
387 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
391 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
395 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
396 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
397 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
398 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
399 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
400 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
404 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
407 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
408 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
409 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
410 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
414 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
417 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
418 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
419 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
420 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
421 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
425 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
428 debian/package.triggers files.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
432 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
435 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
439 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
442 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
443 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
444 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
445 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
450 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
453 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
457 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
460 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
461 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
463 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
468 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
472 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
473 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
474 * Typo. Closes: #441272
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
478 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
485 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
492 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
495 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
497 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
498 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
499 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
501 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
502 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
503 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
507 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
510 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
511 * Update urls to web page.
512 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
514 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
515 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
519 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
522 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
523 - typo in alternatives call
524 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
526 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
527 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
531 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
534 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
539 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
545 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
551 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
554 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
556 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
557 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
558 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
559 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
560 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
561 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
562 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
563 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
564 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
565 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
566 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
570 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
573 package install. Closes: #415717
574 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
575 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
576 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
577 script and then remove the python files.
578 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
579 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
580 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
581 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
582 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
583 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
584 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
585 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
586 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
587 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
588 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
589 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
590 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
594 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Correct typo in french translation
600 * Typo. Closes: #400571
601 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
603 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
605 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
606 Closes: #406921, #381940
607 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
609 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
610 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
611 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
612 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
613 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
614 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
615 specified). Closes: #381851
616 * Misc minor changes.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
620 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
627 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
628 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
632 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
638 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
639 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
642 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
643 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
645 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
646 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
647 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
648 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
652 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
655 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
658 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
662 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
668 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
674 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
675 a difficult situation.
676 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
677 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
678 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
679 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
680 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
681 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
682 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
683 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
684 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
685 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
689 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Non-maintainer upload.
692 * Update of dh_python
693 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
694 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
696 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
697 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
698 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
699 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
700 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
702 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
704 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Non-maintainer upload.
707 * Update of dh_python
708 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
709 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
710 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
711 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
712 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
713 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
714 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
715 specific python version. Closes: #373853
716 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
717 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
719 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
720 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
721 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
722 the not too-distant future).
723 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
724 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
725 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
726 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
727 thus made the build fail.
729 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
731 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Non-maintainer upload.
734 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
736 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
738 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
741 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
742 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
743 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
744 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
745 package. Closes: #301424
746 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
747 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
748 fonts). Closes: #372686
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
752 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
758 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
759 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
760 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
761 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
762 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
763 above, but already depends on that.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
767 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
770 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
771 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
772 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
773 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
774 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
778 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
784 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
790 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
791 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
795 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
798 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
802 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
806 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
807 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
808 new version (0.24.1).
809 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
810 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
813 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
814 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
815 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
816 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
817 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
818 new directory on their own.
819 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
820 * Fix broken directory removal code.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
824 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
827 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
828 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
829 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
830 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
834 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
837 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
838 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
839 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
840 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
841 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
845 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
851 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Typo. Closes: #358904
855 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
856 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
860 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
861 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
865 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
867 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
868 || exit 0 instead of the intended
870 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
871 ignored. Closes: #337664
873 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
878 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
884 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
889 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
890 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
891 the dh_installdebconf manpage
892 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
893 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
894 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
895 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
899 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
902 version. Closes: #350607
903 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
904 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
905 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
906 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
910 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
913 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
914 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
915 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
919 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
926 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Minor bug fix from last release.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
932 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
935 language guessing. Closes: #193221
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
939 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
942 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
943 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
944 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
945 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
946 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
947 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
951 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
954 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
955 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
960 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
963 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
967 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
970 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
974 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
977 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
978 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
979 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
980 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
981 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
982 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
986 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
989 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
990 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
991 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
992 link. Closes: #346405
993 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
996 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
997 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
998 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
999 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1000 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1001 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1005 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1012 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1018 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1021 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1025 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1028 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1033 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1037 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1038 installed. Closes: #342033
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1042 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1045 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1046 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1047 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1052 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1058 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1064 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1068 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1069 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1070 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1074 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1077 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1082 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1089 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1095 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1098 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1099 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1100 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1101 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1102 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1103 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1104 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1106 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1110 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1113 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1114 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1118 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1121 in standard man dirs.
1122 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1126 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1132 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1135 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1140 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1147 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1154 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1157 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1158 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1162 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1165 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1166 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1167 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1169 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1171 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1177 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1183 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1186 mode. Closes: #324161
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1190 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1193 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1194 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1195 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1196 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1201 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1204 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1205 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1206 is necesary for sanity.
1207 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1208 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1213 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1215 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1216 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1220 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1223 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1227 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1233 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1236 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1237 released, so use at your own risk.
1238 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1239 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1241 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1242 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1243 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1244 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1245 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1246 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1247 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1248 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1249 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1250 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1251 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1252 including twice per config file line now..
1253 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1254 and simplfy the rules file.
1255 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1256 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1257 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1259 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1260 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1264 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1267 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1271 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1274 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1278 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1281 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1285 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1288 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1289 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1290 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1291 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1292 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1293 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1297 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1300 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1301 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1302 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1307 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1310 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1311 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1316 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1319 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1320 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1321 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1326 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1329 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1330 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1331 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1335 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1341 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1348 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1351 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1352 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1353 unknown. Closes: #282924
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1357 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1364 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Spanish man page updates.
1367 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1372 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1378 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1381 * dh_desktop: reindent
1382 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1383 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1387 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1393 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1395 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1399 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1401 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1405 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1408 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1409 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1413 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1419 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1425 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1432 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1435 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1439 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1442 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1443 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1444 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1445 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1446 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1447 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1449 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1450 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1451 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1452 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1453 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1454 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1455 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1456 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1457 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1458 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1459 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1460 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1461 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1462 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1463 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1464 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1468 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1475 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1478 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1482 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1485 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1489 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1492 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1496 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1499 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1503 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1509 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1515 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1521 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1524 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1525 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1526 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1530 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1533 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1537 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1540 but occasionally right and necessary.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1544 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1547 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1548 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1549 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1550 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1551 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1555 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1558 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1560 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1561 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1562 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1563 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1564 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1565 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1566 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1567 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1568 postinst scripts for udebs.
1569 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1573 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1576 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1578 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1579 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1583 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1589 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1596 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1603 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1606 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1610 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1613 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1617 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1620 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1623 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1624 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1628 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1634 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1637 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1641 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1644 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1645 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1646 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1648 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1650 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1651 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1652 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1656 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1659 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1664 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1667 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1668 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1669 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1674 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1680 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1686 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1689 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1690 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1691 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1692 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1693 associated -dbg packages.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1697 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1700 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1704 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1707 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1711 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1714 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1718 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1721 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1726 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1729 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1733 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1736 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1741 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1744 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1748 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1752 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1753 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1754 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1755 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1756 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1757 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1758 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1759 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1760 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1761 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1765 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1768 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1773 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1776 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1777 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1781 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1784 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1785 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1790 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1793 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1797 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1800 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1804 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1807 out section number. Closes: #204731
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1811 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1818 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1830 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1833 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1834 removal. Closes: #204286
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1838 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1841 renaming. Closes: #203548
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1845 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1848 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1849 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1859 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1865 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1871 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1874 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1875 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1876 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1880 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1883 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1884 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1888 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1894 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1901 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1904 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1909 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1912 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1919 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1921 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1922 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1926 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1929 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1934 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1937 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1941 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1949 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1956 it break hard links (see #188663).
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1960 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1963 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1973 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1977 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1978 debconf-mergetemplates
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1982 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1985 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1989 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1992 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1996 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1999 * Update debhelper(1).
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2003 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2006 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2007 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2008 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2009 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2010 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2014 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2017 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2018 the shell. Closes: #178524
2019 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2023 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2026 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2030 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2033 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2037 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2040 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2041 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2042 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2043 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2048 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2051 files from installation.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2055 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2058 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2059 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2063 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2066 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2070 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2073 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2077 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2083 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2089 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2093 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2094 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2096 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2100 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2103 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2104 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2105 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2106 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2110 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2113 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2117 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2120 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2121 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2125 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2129 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2134 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2140 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2144 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2145 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2146 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2151 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2154 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2155 practice. Closes: #163303
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2159 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2165 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2172 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2175 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2177 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2178 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2179 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2180 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2181 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2185 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2188 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2193 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2199 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2206 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2209 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2220 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2226 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2242 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2243 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2244 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2245 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2250 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2256 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2263 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2266 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2267 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2271 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2274 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2275 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2276 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2277 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2278 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2285 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2287 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2295 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2302 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2303 right thing. Closes: #150644
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2307 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Stupid, evil typo.
2310 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2321 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2324 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2325 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2339 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2346 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2347 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2355 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2368 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2369 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Removing perl warning message.
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2388 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2389 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2390 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2391 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2392 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2393 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2394 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2395 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2405 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2415 debconf-mergetemplate.
2416 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2417 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2424 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2425 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2426 dh_install, which ...
2427 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2428 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2429 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2430 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2431 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2432 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2433 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2434 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2435 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2436 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2437 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2438 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2439 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2440 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2441 other minor changes.
2442 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2443 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2444 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2445 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2446 course there's -X ..)
2447 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2448 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2449 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2451 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2452 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2453 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2454 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2455 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2460 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2466 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2469 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2473 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2479 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2485 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2491 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2497 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2500 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2501 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2502 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2503 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2505 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2506 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2510 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2516 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2519 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2523 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2526 upset. Closes: #131322
2528 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2530 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2533 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2534 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2535 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2536 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2537 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2538 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2539 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2540 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2541 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2542 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2543 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2544 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2545 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2546 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2547 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2549 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2553 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2556 - Better indenting of generated code.
2557 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2561 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2565 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2566 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2567 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2568 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2569 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2570 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2571 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2575 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2578 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2582 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2585 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2586 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2587 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2588 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2589 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2590 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2591 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2592 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2593 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2594 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2595 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2596 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2597 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2598 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2599 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2604 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2610 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2613 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2614 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2618 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2621 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2622 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2626 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2632 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2635 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2636 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2637 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2638 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2639 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2644 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2650 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2653 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2657 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2660 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2665 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2671 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2674 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2678 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2684 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2688 Also some indentation fixes.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2692 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2695 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2696 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2697 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2698 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2699 Closes: #106514, #85520
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2703 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2709 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2715 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2721 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2727 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2733 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2736 change it in debhelper v4..
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2740 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2746 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2749 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2753 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2756 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2760 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2766 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2769 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2770 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2771 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2772 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2773 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2774 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2775 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2776 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2777 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2778 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2779 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2780 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2784 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2787 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2791 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2798 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2801 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2802 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2803 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2804 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2805 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2806 program those options go to. So, for example,
2807 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2808 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2809 something complex. Closes: #89311
2810 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2814 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2817 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2818 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2819 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2823 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2826 through loop. Closes: #98598
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2830 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Missing semi-colon.
2833 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2834 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2838 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2841 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2842 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2843 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2847 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2850 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2851 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2855 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2858 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2862 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2865 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2866 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2870 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2873 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2874 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2875 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2879 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2882 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2883 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2884 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2888 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2891 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2895 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2901 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2907 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2913 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2919 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2922 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2926 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2929 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2930 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2931 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2932 followed. Closes: #85483
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2936 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2938 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2939 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2940 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2944 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2947 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2948 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2949 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2950 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2951 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2952 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2953 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2954 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2955 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2956 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2957 Closes: #88464, #77743
2958 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2959 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2960 us to deal with that gracefully.
2961 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2963 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2964 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2965 a while, Closes: #51225
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2969 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2975 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2978 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2982 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2986 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2991 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2994 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2995 don't make packlist files.
2996 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2997 debhelper coding standards.
2998 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2999 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3003 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3006 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3010 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3013 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3014 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3015 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3016 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3017 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3018 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3019 but is mildly deprecated.
3020 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3021 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3022 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3023 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3024 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3025 switching to statoverrides..
3026 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3027 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3028 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3029 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3030 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3031 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3033 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3034 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3035 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3036 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3037 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3038 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3039 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3040 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3041 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3043 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3044 variable names, pod man pages).
3045 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3046 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3047 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3048 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3049 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3050 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3051 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3055 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3061 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3068 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3071 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3075 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3077 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3078 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3079 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3083 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3085 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3086 they were previously ignored.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3090 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3092 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3093 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3097 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3099 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3100 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3101 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3105 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3107 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3111 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3113 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3114 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3118 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3120 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3121 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3122 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3123 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3124 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3125 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3126 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3127 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3128 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3129 it is an obsolete program.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3133 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3135 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3139 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3143 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3145 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3149 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3151 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3153 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3155 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3159 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3165 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * typo: Closes, #78567
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3171 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3177 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3183 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3186 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3187 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3188 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3189 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3190 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3194 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3197 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3202 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3205 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3206 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3207 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3208 backwards-compatability.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3212 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3215 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3216 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3217 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3218 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3219 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3220 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3222 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3223 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3224 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3226 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3228 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3229 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3230 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3231 should now be raised to severity important..
3232 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3233 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3237 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3240 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3245 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3251 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3257 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3263 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3270 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3273 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3274 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3275 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3276 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3280 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3286 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3289 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3290 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3291 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3292 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3293 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3294 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3299 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3302 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3306 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3312 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3315 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3320 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3323 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3324 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3325 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3326 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3330 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3334 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3337 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3340 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3341 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3344 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3346 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3347 the TODO entry about it.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3351 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3358 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3361 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3362 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3366 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3369 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3370 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3371 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3372 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3376 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3382 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3389 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3392 (this appears to be logal).
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3396 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3399 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3400 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3401 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3402 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3406 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3412 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3415 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3416 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3417 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3418 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3422 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3428 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3431 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3435 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3442 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3445 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3446 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3447 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3452 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3459 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3465 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3468 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3469 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3470 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3471 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3472 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3473 notice until v2 is complete.
3474 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3475 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3476 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3477 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3478 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3479 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3481 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3482 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3483 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3484 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3488 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3494 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3501 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3504 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3508 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3515 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3518 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3519 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3520 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3521 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3526 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3529 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3530 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3531 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3536 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3539 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3540 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3544 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3547 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3551 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3554 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3558 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3565 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3568 depend on the build and install targets.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3572 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3575 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3579 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3586 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3592 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3598 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3601 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3602 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3603 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3604 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3605 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3606 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3608 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3609 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3610 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3611 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3612 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3613 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3614 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3618 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3624 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3630 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3633 right place. Closes: #55065
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3637 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3644 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3647 * Copyright date updates.
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3651 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3654 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3659 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3665 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3672 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3678 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3684 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3690 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3693 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3694 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3695 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3696 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3697 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3698 bits until all files have been registered.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3702 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * dh_installmanpages:
3705 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3706 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3707 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3708 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3709 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3710 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3711 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3712 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3713 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3714 otherwise change the result at all.
3716 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3717 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3718 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3719 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3720 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3725 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3731 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3734 act on files that don't exist.
3735 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3736 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3737 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3739 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3740 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3741 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3742 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3746 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3752 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3758 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3761 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3765 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3768 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3770 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3771 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3772 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3776 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3779 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3780 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3781 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3782 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3783 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3784 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3785 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3787 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3789 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3793 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3800 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3806 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3812 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3815 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3819 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3825 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3831 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3834 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3835 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3836 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3837 I made some changes, though:
3838 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3839 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3840 that is a clear violation of policy.
3841 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3842 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3843 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3844 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3845 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3846 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3847 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3848 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3849 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3851 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3855 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3861 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3864 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3868 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3871 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3872 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3877 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3883 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3890 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3893 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3894 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3895 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3896 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3897 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3898 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3899 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3903 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3909 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3913 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3914 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3918 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3924 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3927 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3931 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3934 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3935 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3939 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3941 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3946 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3950 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3954 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3957 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3958 for the dependancies to be generated.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3962 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3965 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3972 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3973 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3974 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3979 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3982 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3983 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3987 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3993 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4002 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4006 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4015 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4016 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4017 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4018 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4019 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4020 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4021 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4022 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4023 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4024 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4025 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4026 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4033 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4034 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4036 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4037 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4038 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4039 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4040 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4041 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4043 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4044 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4051 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4055 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4065 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4073 for building debhelper.
4074 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4078 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4085 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4088 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4092 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4095 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4096 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4097 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4098 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4099 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4100 it's always available.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4107 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4108 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4109 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4113 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4116 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4117 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4127 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4130 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4134 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4140 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4143 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4144 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4145 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4149 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4152 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4157 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4160 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4161 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4163 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4164 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4168 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4174 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4180 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4183 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4190 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4191 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4193 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4200 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4201 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4202 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4209 things if CDPATH is set.
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4222 seems to make sense for the transition.
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4229 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4234 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4237 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4238 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4242 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4245 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4252 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4253 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4254 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4255 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4259 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4265 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4268 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4269 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4270 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4271 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4272 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4273 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4274 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4275 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4276 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4277 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4282 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4285 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4286 * README: mention doc/v2
4287 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4288 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4292 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4294 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4295 be using this script RSN.
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4299 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4302 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4303 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4304 more than 1 init script.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4308 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4311 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4315 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * Changed perl version detection.
4318 * Changed call to find.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4322 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4325 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4327 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4332 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * Really include dh_installpam.
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4338 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4341 * Wrote man page for same.
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4345 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4348 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4349 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4354 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4361 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4364 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4365 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4366 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4367 x bit was being set!
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4371 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4374 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4375 well. (Closes: 38900)
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4379 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4382 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4383 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4387 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4393 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4400 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4406 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4409 help from Julian Gilbey.
4410 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4411 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4412 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4413 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4414 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4415 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4416 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4421 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4427 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4434 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4440 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4446 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4449 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4453 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4456 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4460 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4463 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4467 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4473 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4476 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4480 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4486 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4492 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4495 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4496 may be deleted. (#35845)
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4500 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * Various man page enhancements.
4503 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4508 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4511 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4512 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4516 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4519 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4520 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4521 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4523 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4524 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4529 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4535 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * Another very minor typo fix.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4541 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Very minor typo fix.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4547 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4550 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4551 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4555 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4561 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4564 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4565 variables properly (#34850).
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4569 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4575 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4578 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4579 (automatically generated by build process).
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4583 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4585 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4589 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4592 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4593 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4595 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4599 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4602 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4606 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * README: minor typo fix.
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4612 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4615 leave it at that. :-)
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4619 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4625 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4631 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4634 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4635 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4636 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4640 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4643 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4647 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4650 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4654 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4657 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4658 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4659 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4660 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4664 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4667 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4668 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4669 Craig Small for spotting this.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4673 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4676 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4677 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4681 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4687 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4690 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4694 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4696 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4697 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4698 working on the last version of debhelper.
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4702 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4705 being made. (#23255)
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4709 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4715 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4718 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4722 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4725 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4726 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4727 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4728 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4732 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4735 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4736 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4737 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4738 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4740 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4741 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4743 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4748 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4754 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4760 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4763 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4764 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4765 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4766 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4767 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4768 suidregister actually supports it.
4769 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4770 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4774 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4781 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4784 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4785 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4786 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4787 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4788 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4789 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4790 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4794 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4796 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4797 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4801 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4804 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4805 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4806 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4807 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4811 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4814 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4816 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4817 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4818 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4819 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4820 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4821 effect, either. (#30118)
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4825 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4831 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4834 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4835 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4839 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4845 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4848 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4849 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4850 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4851 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4855 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4858 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4859 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4863 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4869 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4872 packages, painlessly.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4876 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4882 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4888 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4894 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * The perl conversion is complete.
4898 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4900 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4901 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4902 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4907 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4910 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4911 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4912 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4916 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4919 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4921 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4923 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4924 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4928 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4931 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4932 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4936 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4942 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4945 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4946 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4947 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4948 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4949 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4953 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4956 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4957 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4958 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4959 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4963 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4966 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4970 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4973 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4974 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4975 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4976 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4977 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4978 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4979 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4980 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4984 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4990 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4993 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4994 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4995 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5000 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5003 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5007 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5010 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5014 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5017 sections of shared libraries.
5018 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5019 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5020 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5021 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5022 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5023 things you don't want them to.
5024 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5025 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5029 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5032 shared libraries. (#26414)
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5036 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5038 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5039 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5040 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5041 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5045 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5049 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5051 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5052 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5053 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5054 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5055 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5059 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5062 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5066 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5069 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5070 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5075 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5078 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5082 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5085 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5086 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5087 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5088 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5089 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5091 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5092 remove debian/files properly.
5093 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5094 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5095 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5096 * Removed bogus menu file.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5100 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5103 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5107 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5110 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5111 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5112 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5113 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5114 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5115 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5119 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5122 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5123 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5124 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5125 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5129 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5136 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5139 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5140 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5142 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5143 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5144 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5145 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5146 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5147 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5151 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5154 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5155 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5156 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5157 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5158 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5159 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5160 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5161 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5162 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5163 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5164 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5165 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5166 passed any switches.
5167 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5171 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5174 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5175 at all for a long while.
5176 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5177 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5178 large chunks in the process.
5179 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5180 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5181 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5186 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5189 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5191 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5196 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5199 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5200 that don't always have the same files in them.
5201 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5202 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5203 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5207 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5211 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5212 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5213 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5214 updating 27 man pages.
5215 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5216 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5217 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5218 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5219 programs act on. (#25247)
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5223 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5227 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5228 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5229 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5230 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5231 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5232 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5237 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5244 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5251 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5254 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5258 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5264 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5267 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5268 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5269 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5270 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5271 package by accident.
5272 * Is version 1.0 next?
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5276 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5279 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5280 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5284 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5287 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5288 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5289 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5290 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5291 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5293 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5298 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5301 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5302 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5306 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5309 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5313 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5316 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5317 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5322 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5328 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5331 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5332 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5337 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5343 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5346 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5347 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5348 past week. Thanks, guys!
5350 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5351 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5352 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5353 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5354 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5355 would do in the same situation.
5356 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5357 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5359 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5361 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5362 permissions changed.
5363 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5364 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5365 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5366 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5367 files are treated identically.
5368 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5369 * Minor man page fixes.
5370 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5371 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5372 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5376 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5379 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5380 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5381 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5382 use -X multiple times, too.
5383 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5384 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5388 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5391 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5392 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5396 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5399 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5403 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5406 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5407 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5408 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5409 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5410 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5411 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5412 shape if you're starting a new package.
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5416 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5419 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5423 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5426 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5427 because of missing symlinks.
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5431 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5437 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5440 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5441 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5442 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5443 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5444 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5446 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5447 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5451 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5453 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5454 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5455 to be changed after the fact :-)
5456 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5460 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5462 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5463 no version string after the -V.
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5467 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5469 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5470 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5475 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5478 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5482 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5485 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5486 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5487 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5488 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5489 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5490 I always welcome corrections!
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5494 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5500 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5503 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5504 * Documented this new switch.
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5508 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5511 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5512 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5513 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5514 no packages use the old behavior.
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5518 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5521 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5522 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5526 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5529 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5533 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5539 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5542 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5546 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5549 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5550 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5551 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5555 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5561 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5564 into the source package by accident.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5568 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5571 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5572 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5573 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5574 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5575 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5576 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5581 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5585 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5586 inspired to implement some of it.
5587 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5591 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5594 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5598 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5601 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5602 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5606 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5609 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5610 have done.) (#17598)
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5614 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5620 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5626 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5629 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5633 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5636 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5637 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5641 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5644 argument processor in perl.
5645 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5646 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5647 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5648 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5652 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5655 type directories. (#16933)
5656 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5657 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5658 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5659 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5660 are supported. (#16935)
5661 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5666 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5669 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5673 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5677 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5678 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5679 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5680 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5681 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5682 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5686 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5689 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5690 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5692 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5693 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5694 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5695 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5696 a given package, or -i or -a.
5697 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5698 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5699 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5700 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5701 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5702 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5703 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5704 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5705 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5707 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5708 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5709 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5713 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5716 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5717 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5722 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5725 does not have a section.
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5729 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5732 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5733 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5734 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5738 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * Fixed typo #16215.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5744 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5747 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5748 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5749 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5750 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5751 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5756 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5759 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5760 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5761 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5766 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5772 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5778 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5781 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5782 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5783 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5784 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5785 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5786 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5790 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5796 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5799 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5803 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5806 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5807 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5808 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5812 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5814 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5815 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5819 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5825 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5828 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5832 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5834 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5835 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5839 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5841 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5845 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5848 postinst, postrm, etc.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5852 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5858 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5861 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5862 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5863 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5864 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5865 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5869 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5872 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5873 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5877 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5880 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5884 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5887 installing package files into.
5888 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5893 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5897 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5901 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5907 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5909 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5910 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5914 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5917 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5918 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5919 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5920 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5924 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5926 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5927 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5928 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5929 multiple binary packages.
5930 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5931 should rebuild them with this version.
5932 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5936 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5939 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5943 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5946 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5950 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5952 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5953 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5954 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5955 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5956 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5957 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5958 debian/README.debian.
5959 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5960 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5961 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5962 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5963 in a few situations.)
5965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5967 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5969 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5973 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5979 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5982 * Fixed several man pages.
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5986 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5989 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5990 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5994 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5996 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5997 is ready for general use.
5998 * Added man pages for all commands.
5999 * Multiple binary package support.
6000 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6001 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6002 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6004 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6005 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6006 auto-installed as parameters.
6007 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6009 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6012 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6013 the package build directory it is to act on.
6014 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6015 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6016 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6020 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6022 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6023 ready to replace debstd.
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400