1 debhelper (7.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
4 contributed by Modestas Vainius
5 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
6 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives in other
7 but the top level directory. Closes: #530597
8 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
9 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
10 that support it. Closes: #480577
11 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
12 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
13 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
15 - Adds support for cmake.
16 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
17 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
19 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:26:08 -0400
24 debhelper (7.2.18) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
26 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
27 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
28 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
29 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:59:11 -0400
33 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
36 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
37 warning or deprecation message.
38 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
39 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
40 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
41 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
42 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
43 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
44 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
45 Closes: #528864, #357434
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
49 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
55 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
58 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
59 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
60 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
61 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
63 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
64 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
65 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
69 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
75 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
82 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
85 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
89 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
93 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
94 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
96 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
97 file support. Closes: #494914
98 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
102 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
105 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
106 parameters. Closes: #527256
107 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
108 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
109 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
113 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
117 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
118 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
119 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
123 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
126 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
127 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
128 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
132 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
135 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
136 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
138 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
139 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
140 by triggers). Closes: #521181
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
144 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
148 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
152 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
155 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
156 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
157 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
158 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
163 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
169 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
172 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
173 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
174 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
175 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
176 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
178 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
179 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
180 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
181 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
182 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
183 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
187 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
190 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
191 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
192 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
193 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
194 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
196 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
200 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
202 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
206 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
208 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
209 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
210 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
211 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
212 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
213 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
214 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
215 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
216 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
217 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
218 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
222 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
224 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
225 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
227 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
228 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
229 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
230 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
232 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
233 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
237 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
239 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
240 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
241 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
242 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
243 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
244 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
245 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
247 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
248 that uses them. Affected options are:
249 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
250 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
251 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
252 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
253 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
254 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
255 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
256 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
257 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
258 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
259 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
260 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
264 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
271 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
277 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
279 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
280 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
282 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
283 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
284 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
285 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
286 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
288 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
290 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
291 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
292 rules (see bug #509756).
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
296 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
302 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
303 * Typo. Closes: #493062
304 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
305 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
309 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
312 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
313 empty files. Closes: #490937
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
317 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
323 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
330 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
333 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
334 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
335 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
336 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
341 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
343 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
344 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
345 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
346 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
350 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
353 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
354 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
355 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
356 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
357 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
361 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
368 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
370 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
371 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
372 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
373 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
374 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
375 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
376 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
377 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
378 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
379 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
383 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
386 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
387 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
388 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
389 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
391 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
392 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
393 breaking backwards compatability.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
397 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
400 message in perl 5.10.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
404 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
410 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Convert copyright file to new format.
413 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
417 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
420 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
424 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
427 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
428 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
429 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
430 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
431 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
432 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
433 logging by dh_listpackages.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
437 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
440 run and there are no packages of that type.
441 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
442 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
443 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
444 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
446 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
447 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
451 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
453 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
454 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
455 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
459 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
462 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
463 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
465 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
466 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
467 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
468 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
469 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
470 planned but not yet implemented.)
471 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
472 if the Makefile has such a target.
473 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
474 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
475 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
476 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
477 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
478 but not yet implemented.)
479 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
480 recommended default, especially when using dh.
481 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
482 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
483 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
485 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
487 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
488 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
490 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
491 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
492 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
497 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
500 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
501 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
505 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
507 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
508 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
509 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
513 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
519 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
525 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
528 just those installed by the program.
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
532 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
535 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
536 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
540 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
543 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
544 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
545 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
546 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
550 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
553 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
554 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
558 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
561 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
562 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
566 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
569 with policy. Closes: #461392
570 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
571 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
572 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
573 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
574 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
578 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
580 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
581 Closes: #460340, #460351
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
585 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
588 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
589 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
590 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
591 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
595 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
598 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
599 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
600 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
601 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
602 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
603 package build directory won't work.
604 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
605 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
606 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
607 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
608 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
609 mode. Closes: #459426
610 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
615 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
618 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
622 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
626 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
627 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
628 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
629 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
630 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
631 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
635 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
638 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
639 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
640 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
641 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
645 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
648 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
649 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
650 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
651 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
652 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
656 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
659 debian/package.triggers files.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
663 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
666 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
670 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
673 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
674 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
675 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
676 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
681 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
684 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
688 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
691 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
692 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
694 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
699 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
703 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
704 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
705 * Typo. Closes: #441272
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
709 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
716 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
723 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
726 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
728 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
729 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
730 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
732 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
733 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
734 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
738 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
741 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
742 * Update urls to web page.
743 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
745 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
746 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
750 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
753 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
754 - typo in alternatives call
755 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
757 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
758 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
762 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
765 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
770 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
776 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
782 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
785 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
787 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
788 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
789 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
790 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
791 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
792 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
793 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
794 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
795 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
796 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
797 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
801 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
804 package install. Closes: #415717
805 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
806 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
807 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
808 script and then remove the python files.
809 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
810 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
811 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
812 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
813 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
814 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
815 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
816 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
817 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
818 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
819 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
820 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
821 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
825 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Correct typo in french translation
831 * Typo. Closes: #400571
832 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
834 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
836 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
837 Closes: #406921, #381940
838 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
840 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
841 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
842 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
843 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
844 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
845 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
846 specified). Closes: #381851
847 * Misc minor changes.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
851 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
858 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
859 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
863 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
869 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
870 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
873 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
874 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
876 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
877 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
878 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
879 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
883 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
886 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
889 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
893 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
899 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
905 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
906 a difficult situation.
907 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
908 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
909 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
910 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
911 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
912 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
913 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
914 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
915 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
916 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
920 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Non-maintainer upload.
923 * Update of dh_python
924 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
925 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
927 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
928 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
929 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
930 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
931 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
933 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
935 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Non-maintainer upload.
938 * Update of dh_python
939 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
940 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
941 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
942 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
943 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
944 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
945 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
946 specific python version. Closes: #373853
947 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
948 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
950 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
951 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
952 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
953 the not too-distant future).
954 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
955 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
956 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
957 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
958 thus made the build fail.
960 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
962 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Non-maintainer upload.
965 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
967 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
969 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
972 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
973 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
974 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
975 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
976 package. Closes: #301424
977 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
978 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
979 fonts). Closes: #372686
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
983 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
989 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
990 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
991 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
992 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
993 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
994 above, but already depends on that.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
998 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1001 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1002 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1003 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1004 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1005 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1009 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1015 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1021 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1022 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1026 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1029 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1033 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1037 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1038 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1039 new version (0.24.1).
1040 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1041 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1044 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1045 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1046 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1047 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1048 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1049 new directory on their own.
1050 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1051 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1055 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1058 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1059 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1060 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1061 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1065 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1068 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1069 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1070 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1071 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1072 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1076 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1082 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1086 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1087 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1091 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1092 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1096 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1098 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1099 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1101 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1102 ignored. Closes: #337664
1104 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1109 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1115 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1120 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1121 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1122 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1123 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1124 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1125 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1126 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1130 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1133 version. Closes: #350607
1134 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1135 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1136 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1137 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1141 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1144 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1145 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1146 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1150 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1157 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1163 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1166 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1170 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1173 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1174 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1175 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1176 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1177 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1178 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1182 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1185 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1186 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1191 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1194 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1198 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1201 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1205 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1208 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1209 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1210 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1211 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1212 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1213 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1217 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1221 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1222 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1223 link. Closes: #346405
1224 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1226 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1227 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1228 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1229 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1230 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1231 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1232 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1236 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1243 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1249 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1252 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1256 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1259 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1264 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1268 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1269 installed. Closes: #342033
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1273 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1276 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1277 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1278 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1283 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1289 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1295 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1299 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1300 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1301 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1305 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1308 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1313 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1320 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1326 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1329 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1330 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1331 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1332 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1333 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1334 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1335 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1337 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1341 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1344 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1345 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1349 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1352 in standard man dirs.
1353 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1357 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1363 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1366 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1371 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1378 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1385 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1388 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1389 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1393 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1396 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1397 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1398 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1400 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1402 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1408 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1414 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1417 mode. Closes: #324161
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1421 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1424 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1425 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1426 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1427 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1432 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1435 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1436 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1437 is necesary for sanity.
1438 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1439 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1444 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1446 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1447 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1451 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1454 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1458 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1464 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1467 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1468 released, so use at your own risk.
1469 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1470 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1472 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1473 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1474 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1475 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1476 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1477 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1478 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1479 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1480 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1481 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1482 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1483 including twice per config file line now..
1484 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1485 and simplfy the rules file.
1486 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1487 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1488 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1490 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1491 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1495 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1498 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1502 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1505 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1509 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1512 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1516 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1519 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1520 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1521 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1522 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1523 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1524 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1528 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1531 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1532 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1533 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1538 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1541 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1542 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1547 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1550 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1551 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1552 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1557 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1560 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1561 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1562 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1566 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1572 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1579 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1582 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1583 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1584 unknown. Closes: #282924
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1588 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1595 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Spanish man page updates.
1598 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1603 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1609 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1612 * dh_desktop: reindent
1613 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1614 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1618 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1624 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1626 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1630 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1632 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1636 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1639 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1640 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1644 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1650 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1656 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1663 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1666 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1670 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1673 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1674 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1675 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1676 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1677 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1678 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1680 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1681 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1682 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1683 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1684 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1685 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1686 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1687 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1688 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1689 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1690 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1691 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1692 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1693 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1694 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1695 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1699 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1706 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1709 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1713 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1716 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1720 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1723 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1727 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1730 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1734 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1740 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1746 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1752 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1755 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1756 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1757 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1761 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1764 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1768 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1771 but occasionally right and necessary.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1775 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1778 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1779 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1780 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1781 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1782 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1786 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1789 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1791 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1792 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1793 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1794 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1795 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1796 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1797 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1798 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1799 postinst scripts for udebs.
1800 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1804 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1807 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1809 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1810 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1814 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1820 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1827 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1834 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1837 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1841 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1844 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1848 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1851 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1854 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1855 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1859 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1865 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1868 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1872 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1875 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1876 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1877 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1879 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1881 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1882 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1883 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1887 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1890 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1895 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1898 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1899 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1900 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1905 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1911 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1917 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1920 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1921 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1922 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1923 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1924 associated -dbg packages.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1931 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1935 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1938 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1942 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1945 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1949 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1952 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1957 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1960 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1964 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1967 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1972 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1975 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1979 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1983 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1984 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1985 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1986 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1987 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1988 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1989 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1990 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1991 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1992 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1999 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2007 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2008 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2012 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2015 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2016 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2024 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2031 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2038 out section number. Closes: #204731
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2042 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2055 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2061 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2064 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2065 removal. Closes: #204286
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2069 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2072 renaming. Closes: #203548
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2076 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2079 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2080 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2084 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2090 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2096 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2102 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2105 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2106 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2107 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2114 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2115 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2119 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2125 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2132 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2135 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2140 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2143 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2147 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2150 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2152 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2153 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2157 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2160 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2165 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2168 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2172 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2178 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2180 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2184 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2187 it break hard links (see #188663).
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2194 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2198 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2204 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2208 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2209 debconf-mergetemplates
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2213 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2216 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2220 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2223 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2227 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2230 * Update debhelper(1).
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2234 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2237 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2238 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2239 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2240 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2241 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2245 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2248 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2249 the shell. Closes: #178524
2250 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2254 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2257 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2261 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2264 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2268 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2271 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2272 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2273 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2274 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2279 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2282 files from installation.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2286 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2289 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2290 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2294 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2297 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2301 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2304 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2308 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2314 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2320 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2324 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2325 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2327 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2331 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2334 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2335 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2336 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2337 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2341 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2344 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2348 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2351 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2352 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2356 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2360 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2371 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2375 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2376 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2377 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2382 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2385 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2386 practice. Closes: #163303
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2390 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2396 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2403 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2406 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2408 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2409 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2410 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2411 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2412 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2419 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2440 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2445 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2451 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2457 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2470 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2473 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2474 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2475 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2476 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2494 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2497 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2498 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2505 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2506 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2507 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2508 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2509 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2513 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2516 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2518 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2523 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2526 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2530 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2533 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2534 right thing. Closes: #150644
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2538 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Stupid, evil typo.
2541 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2545 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2555 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2556 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2561 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2567 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2570 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2574 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2577 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2578 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2583 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2586 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2590 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2596 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2599 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2600 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2610 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Removing perl warning message.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2616 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2619 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2620 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2621 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2622 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2623 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2624 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2625 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2626 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2636 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2646 debconf-mergetemplate.
2647 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2648 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2652 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2655 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2656 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2657 dh_install, which ...
2658 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2659 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2660 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2661 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2662 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2663 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2664 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2665 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2666 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2667 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2668 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2669 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2670 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2671 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2672 other minor changes.
2673 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2674 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2675 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2676 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2677 course there's -X ..)
2678 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2679 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2680 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2682 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2683 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2684 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2685 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2686 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2691 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2697 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2700 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2704 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2710 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2716 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2722 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2728 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2731 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2732 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2733 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2734 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2736 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2737 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2741 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2747 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2750 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2754 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2757 upset. Closes: #131322
2759 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2761 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2764 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2765 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2766 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2767 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2768 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2769 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2770 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2771 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2772 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2773 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2774 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2775 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2776 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2777 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2778 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2780 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2784 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2787 - Better indenting of generated code.
2788 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2792 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2796 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2797 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2798 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2799 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2800 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2801 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2802 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2806 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2809 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2813 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2816 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2817 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2818 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2819 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2820 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2821 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2822 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2823 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2824 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2825 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2826 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2827 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2828 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2829 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2830 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2835 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2841 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2844 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2845 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2849 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2852 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2853 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2857 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2863 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2866 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2867 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2868 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2869 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2870 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2875 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2881 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2884 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2888 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2891 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2896 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2902 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2905 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2909 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2915 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2919 Also some indentation fixes.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2923 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2926 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2927 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2928 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2929 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2930 Closes: #106514, #85520
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2934 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2940 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2946 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2952 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2958 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2964 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2967 change it in debhelper v4..
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2971 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2977 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2980 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2984 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2987 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2991 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2997 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3000 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3001 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3002 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3003 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3004 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3005 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3006 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3007 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3008 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3009 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3010 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3011 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3015 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3018 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3022 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3029 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3032 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3033 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3034 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3035 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3036 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3037 program those options go to. So, for example,
3038 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3039 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3040 something complex. Closes: #89311
3041 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3045 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3048 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3049 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3050 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3054 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3057 through loop. Closes: #98598
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3061 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Missing semi-colon.
3064 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3065 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3069 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3072 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3073 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3074 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3078 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3081 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3082 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3086 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3089 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3093 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3096 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3097 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3101 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3104 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3105 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3106 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3110 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3113 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3114 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3115 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3119 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3122 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3126 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3132 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3138 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3144 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3150 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3153 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3157 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3160 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3161 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3162 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3163 followed. Closes: #85483
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3167 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3169 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3170 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3171 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3175 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3178 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3179 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3180 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3181 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3182 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3183 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3184 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3185 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3186 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3187 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3188 Closes: #88464, #77743
3189 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3190 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3191 us to deal with that gracefully.
3192 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3194 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3195 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3196 a while, Closes: #51225
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3200 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3206 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3209 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3213 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3217 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3222 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3225 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3226 don't make packlist files.
3227 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3228 debhelper coding standards.
3229 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3230 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3234 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3237 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3241 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3244 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3245 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3246 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3247 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3248 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3249 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3250 but is mildly deprecated.
3251 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3252 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3253 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3254 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3255 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3256 switching to statoverrides..
3257 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3258 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3259 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3260 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3261 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3262 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3264 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3265 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3266 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3267 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3268 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3269 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3270 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3271 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3272 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3274 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3275 variable names, pod man pages).
3276 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3277 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3278 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3279 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3280 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3281 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3282 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3286 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3292 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3299 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3302 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3306 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3308 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3309 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3310 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3314 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3316 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3317 they were previously ignored.
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3321 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3323 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3324 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3328 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3330 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3331 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3332 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3336 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3338 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3342 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3344 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3345 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3349 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3351 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3352 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3353 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3354 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3355 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3356 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3357 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3358 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3359 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3360 it is an obsolete program.
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3364 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3366 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3370 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3374 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3376 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3380 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3382 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3384 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3386 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3390 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3396 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * typo: Closes, #78567
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3402 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3408 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3414 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3417 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3418 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3419 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3420 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3421 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3425 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3428 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3433 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3436 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3437 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3438 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3439 backwards-compatability.
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3443 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3446 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3447 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3448 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3449 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3450 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3451 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3453 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3454 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3455 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3457 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3459 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3460 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3461 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3462 should now be raised to severity important..
3463 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3464 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3468 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3471 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3476 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3482 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3488 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3494 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3501 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3504 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3505 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3506 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3507 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3511 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3517 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3520 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3521 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3522 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3523 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3524 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3525 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3530 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3533 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3537 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3543 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3546 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3551 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3554 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3555 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3556 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3557 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3561 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3565 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3568 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3571 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3572 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3575 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3577 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3578 the TODO entry about it.
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3582 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3589 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3592 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3593 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3597 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3600 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3601 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3602 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3603 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3607 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3613 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3620 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3623 (this appears to be logal).
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3627 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3630 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3631 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3632 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3633 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3637 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3643 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3646 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3647 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3648 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3649 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3653 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3659 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3662 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3666 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3673 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3676 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3677 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3678 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3683 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3690 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3696 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3699 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3700 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3701 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3702 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3703 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3704 notice until v2 is complete.
3705 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3706 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3707 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3708 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3709 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3710 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3712 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3713 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3714 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3715 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3719 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3725 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3732 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3735 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3739 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3746 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3749 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3750 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3751 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3752 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3757 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3760 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3761 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3762 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3767 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3770 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3771 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3775 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3778 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3782 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3785 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3789 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3796 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3799 depend on the build and install targets.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3803 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3806 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3810 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3817 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3823 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3829 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3832 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3833 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3834 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3835 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3836 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3837 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3839 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3840 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3841 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3842 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3843 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3844 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3845 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3849 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3855 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3861 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3864 right place. Closes: #55065
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3875 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3878 * Copyright date updates.
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3882 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3885 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3890 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3896 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3903 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3909 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3915 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3921 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3924 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3925 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3926 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3927 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3928 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3929 bits until all files have been registered.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3933 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_installmanpages:
3936 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3937 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3938 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3939 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3940 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3941 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3942 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3943 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3944 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3945 otherwise change the result at all.
3947 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3948 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3949 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3950 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3951 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3956 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3962 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3965 act on files that don't exist.
3966 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3967 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3968 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3970 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3971 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3972 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3973 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3977 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3983 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3989 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3992 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3996 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3999 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4001 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4002 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4003 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4010 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4011 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4012 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4013 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4014 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4015 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4016 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4018 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4020 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4024 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4031 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4037 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4043 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4046 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4050 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4056 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4065 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4066 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4067 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4068 I made some changes, though:
4069 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4070 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4071 that is a clear violation of policy.
4072 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4073 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4074 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4075 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4076 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4077 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4078 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4079 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4080 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4082 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4086 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4092 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4095 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4099 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4102 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4103 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4108 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4114 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4124 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4125 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4126 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4127 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4128 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4129 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4130 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4134 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4140 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4144 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4145 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4149 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4155 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4158 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4162 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4165 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4166 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4172 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4177 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4181 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4185 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4188 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4189 for the dependancies to be generated.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4196 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4203 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4204 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4205 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4213 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4214 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4224 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4230 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4233 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4243 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4246 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4247 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4248 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4249 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4250 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4251 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4252 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4253 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4254 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4255 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4256 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4257 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4264 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4265 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4267 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4268 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4269 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4270 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4271 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4272 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4274 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4275 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4279 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4282 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4286 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4293 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4296 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4304 for building debhelper.
4305 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4309 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4319 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4323 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4326 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4327 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4328 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4329 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4330 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4331 it's always available.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4335 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4338 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4339 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4340 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4344 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4347 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4348 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4352 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4358 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4361 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4365 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4371 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4374 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4375 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4376 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4383 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4388 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4391 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4392 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4394 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4395 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4405 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4411 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4414 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4418 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4421 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4422 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4424 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4428 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4431 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4432 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4433 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4437 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4440 things if CDPATH is set.
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4444 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4450 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4453 seems to make sense for the transition.
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4457 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4460 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4465 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4468 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4469 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4473 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4476 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4480 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4483 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4484 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4485 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4486 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4490 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4496 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4499 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4500 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4501 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4502 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4503 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4504 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4505 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4506 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4507 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4508 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4513 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4516 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4517 * README: mention doc/v2
4518 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4519 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4523 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4525 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4526 be using this script RSN.
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4530 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4533 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4534 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4535 more than 1 init script.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4539 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4542 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4546 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * Changed perl version detection.
4549 * Changed call to find.
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4553 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4556 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4558 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4563 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * Really include dh_installpam.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4569 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4572 * Wrote man page for same.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4576 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4579 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4580 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4585 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4592 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4595 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4596 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4597 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4598 x bit was being set!
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4602 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4605 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4606 well. (Closes: 38900)
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4610 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4613 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4614 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4618 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4624 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4631 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4637 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4640 help from Julian Gilbey.
4641 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4642 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4643 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4644 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4645 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4646 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4647 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4652 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4658 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4665 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4671 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4677 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4680 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4684 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4687 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4691 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4694 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4698 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4704 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4707 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4711 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4717 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4723 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4726 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4727 may be deleted. (#35845)
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4731 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * Various man page enhancements.
4734 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4739 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4742 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4743 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4747 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4750 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4751 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4752 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4754 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4755 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4760 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4766 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * Another very minor typo fix.
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4772 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * Very minor typo fix.
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4778 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4781 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4782 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4786 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4792 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4795 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4796 variables properly (#34850).
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4800 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4806 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4809 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4810 (automatically generated by build process).
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4814 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4816 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4820 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4823 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4824 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4826 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4830 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4833 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4837 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * README: minor typo fix.
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4843 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4846 leave it at that. :-)
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4850 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4856 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4862 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4865 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4866 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4867 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4871 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4874 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4878 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4881 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4885 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4888 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4889 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4890 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4891 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4895 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4898 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4899 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4900 Craig Small for spotting this.
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4904 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4907 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4908 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4912 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4918 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4921 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4925 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4927 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4928 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4929 working on the last version of debhelper.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4933 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4936 being made. (#23255)
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4940 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4946 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4949 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4953 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4956 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4957 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4958 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4959 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4963 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4966 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4967 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4968 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4969 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4971 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4972 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4974 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4979 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4985 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4991 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4994 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4995 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4996 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4997 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4998 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4999 suidregister actually supports it.
5000 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5001 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5005 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5012 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5015 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5016 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5017 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5018 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5019 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5020 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5021 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5025 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5027 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5028 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5032 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5035 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5036 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5037 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5038 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5042 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5045 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5047 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5048 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5049 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5050 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5051 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5052 effect, either. (#30118)
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5056 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5062 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5065 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5066 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5070 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5076 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5079 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5080 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5081 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5082 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5086 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5089 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5090 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5094 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5100 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5103 packages, painlessly.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5107 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5113 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5119 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5125 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * The perl conversion is complete.
5129 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5131 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5132 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5133 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5138 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5141 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5142 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5143 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5147 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5150 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5152 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5154 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5155 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5159 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5161 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5162 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5163 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5167 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5173 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5176 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5177 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5178 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5179 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5180 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5184 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5187 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5188 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5189 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5190 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5194 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5197 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5201 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5204 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5205 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5206 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5207 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5208 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5209 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5210 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5211 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5215 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5221 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5223 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5224 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5225 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5226 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5231 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5234 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5238 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5241 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5245 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5248 sections of shared libraries.
5249 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5250 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5251 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5252 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5253 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5254 things you don't want them to.
5255 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5256 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5260 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5263 shared libraries. (#26414)
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5267 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5269 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5270 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5271 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5272 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5276 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5280 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5282 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5283 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5284 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5285 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5286 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5290 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5293 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5297 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5300 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5301 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5306 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5309 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5313 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5316 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5317 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5318 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5319 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5320 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5322 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5323 remove debian/files properly.
5324 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5325 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5326 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5327 * Removed bogus menu file.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5331 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5334 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5338 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5341 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5342 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5343 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5344 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5345 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5346 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5350 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5353 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5354 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5355 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5356 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5360 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5367 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5370 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5371 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5373 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5374 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5375 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5376 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5377 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5378 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5382 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5385 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5386 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5387 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5388 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5389 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5390 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5391 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5392 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5393 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5394 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5395 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5396 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5397 passed any switches.
5398 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5402 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5405 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5406 at all for a long while.
5407 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5408 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5409 large chunks in the process.
5410 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5411 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5412 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5417 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5420 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5422 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5427 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5430 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5431 that don't always have the same files in them.
5432 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5433 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5434 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5438 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5442 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5443 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5444 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5445 updating 27 man pages.
5446 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5447 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5448 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5449 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5450 programs act on. (#25247)
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5454 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5458 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5459 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5460 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5461 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5462 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5463 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5468 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5475 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5482 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5485 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5489 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5495 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5498 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5499 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5500 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5501 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5502 package by accident.
5503 * Is version 1.0 next?
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5507 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5510 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5511 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5515 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5518 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5519 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5520 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5521 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5522 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5524 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5529 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5532 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5533 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5537 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5540 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5544 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5547 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5548 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5553 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5559 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5562 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5563 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5568 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5574 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5577 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5578 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5579 past week. Thanks, guys!
5581 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5582 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5583 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5584 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5585 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5586 would do in the same situation.
5587 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5588 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5590 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5592 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5593 permissions changed.
5594 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5595 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5596 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5597 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5598 files are treated identically.
5599 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5600 * Minor man page fixes.
5601 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5602 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5603 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5607 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5610 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5611 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5612 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5613 use -X multiple times, too.
5614 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5615 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5619 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5622 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5623 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5627 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5630 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5634 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5637 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5638 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5639 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5640 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5641 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5642 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5643 shape if you're starting a new package.
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5647 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5650 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5654 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5657 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5658 because of missing symlinks.
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5662 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5668 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5670 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5671 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5672 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5673 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5674 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5675 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5677 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5678 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5682 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5684 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5685 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5686 to be changed after the fact :-)
5687 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5691 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5693 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5694 no version string after the -V.
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5698 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5700 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5701 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5706 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5709 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5713 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5716 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5717 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5718 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5719 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5720 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5721 I always welcome corrections!
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5725 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5731 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5734 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5735 * Documented this new switch.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5739 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5742 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5743 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5744 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5745 no packages use the old behavior.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5749 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5752 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5753 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5757 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5760 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5764 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5770 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5773 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5777 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5780 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5781 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5782 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5786 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5792 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5795 into the source package by accident.
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5799 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5802 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5803 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5804 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5805 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5806 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5807 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5812 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5814 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5816 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5817 inspired to implement some of it.
5818 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5822 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5825 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5829 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5832 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5833 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5837 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5840 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5841 have done.) (#17598)
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5845 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5851 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5857 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5860 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5864 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5867 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5868 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5872 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5875 argument processor in perl.
5876 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5877 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5878 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5879 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5883 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5885 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5886 type directories. (#16933)
5887 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5888 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5889 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5890 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5891 are supported. (#16935)
5892 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5897 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5900 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5904 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5908 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5909 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5910 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5911 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5912 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5913 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5917 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5920 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5921 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5923 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5924 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5925 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5926 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5927 a given package, or -i or -a.
5928 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5929 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5930 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5931 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5932 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5933 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5934 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5935 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5936 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5938 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5939 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5940 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5944 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5946 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5947 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5948 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5953 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5956 does not have a section.
5958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5960 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5962 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5963 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5964 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5965 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5969 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5971 * Fixed typo #16215.
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5975 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5978 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5979 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5980 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5981 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5982 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5987 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5990 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5991 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5992 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5997 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6003 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6005 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6009 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6012 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6013 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6014 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6015 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6016 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6017 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6021 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6027 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6030 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6034 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6037 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6038 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6039 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6043 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6045 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6046 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6050 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6056 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6058 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6059 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6063 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6065 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6066 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6070 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6072 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6076 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6079 postinst, postrm, etc.
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6083 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6089 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6091 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6092 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6093 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6094 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6095 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6096 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6100 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6102 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6103 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6104 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6108 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6110 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6111 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6115 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6118 installing package files into.
6119 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6124 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6128 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6132 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6138 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6140 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6141 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6145 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6148 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6149 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6150 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6151 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6155 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6157 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6158 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6159 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6160 multiple binary packages.
6161 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6162 should rebuild them with this version.
6163 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6167 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6169 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6170 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6174 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6176 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6177 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6181 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6184 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6185 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6186 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6187 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6188 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6189 debian/README.debian.
6190 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6191 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6192 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6193 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6194 in a few situations.)
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6198 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6204 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6206 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6210 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6213 * Fixed several man pages.
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6217 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6220 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6221 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6225 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6228 is ready for general use.
6229 * Added man pages for all commands.
6230 * Multiple binary package support.
6231 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6232 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6233 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6235 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6236 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6237 auto-installed as parameters.
6238 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6240 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6243 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6244 the package build directory it is to act on.
6245 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6246 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6247 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6251 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6253 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6254 ready to replace debstd.
6256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400