1 debhelper (7.4.16) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Updated French translation.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:53:27 -0500
7 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
9 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
10 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
11 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
15 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
18 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
22 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
25 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
29 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
32 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
33 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
34 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
35 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
36 options that they do not support.
37 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
38 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
39 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
40 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
41 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
42 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
47 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
51 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
52 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
53 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
54 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
55 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
56 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
57 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
58 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
59 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
63 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
66 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
67 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
68 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
69 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
73 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Typo. Closes: #558654
76 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
77 installed. Closes: #558782
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
81 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
84 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
85 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
86 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
87 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
88 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
92 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
94 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
95 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
96 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
97 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
101 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
104 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
105 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
109 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
111 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
115 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
117 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
118 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
119 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
120 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
121 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
122 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
123 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
124 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
125 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
126 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
127 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
128 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
129 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
130 time soon.) Closes: #554509
131 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
133 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
134 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
135 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
136 document id. Closes: #555677
137 * Typo. Closes: #555659
138 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
139 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
140 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
141 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
143 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
144 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
145 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
150 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
153 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
154 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
155 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
156 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
157 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
158 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
159 translation (#494300 part 2)
162 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
164 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
165 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
166 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
167 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
168 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
172 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
175 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
176 (It was only run once due to logging.)
177 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
178 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
179 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
180 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
181 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
182 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
183 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
184 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
185 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
186 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
190 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
194 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
197 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
198 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
202 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
205 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
206 flag with arch all/any packages.
207 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
208 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
209 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
210 situation. Closes: #540794
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
214 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
218 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
219 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
220 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
221 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
222 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
225 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
226 the default. Closes: #538201
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
231 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
235 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
236 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
237 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
238 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
239 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
241 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
242 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
243 * Above Closes: #491117
244 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
249 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
255 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
256 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
257 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
261 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
264 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
265 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
266 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
267 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
268 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
273 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
276 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
277 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
281 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
283 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
287 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
289 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
290 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
292 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
293 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
294 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
298 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
300 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
301 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
305 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
311 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
313 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
314 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
315 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
320 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
322 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
326 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
329 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
330 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
331 created by using `python' first during build and install.
333 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
338 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
340 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
344 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
346 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
347 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
351 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
353 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
357 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
359 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
363 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
365 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
366 contributed by Modestas Vainius
367 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
368 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
369 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
370 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
371 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
372 that support it. Closes: #480577
373 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
374 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
375 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
377 - Adds support for cmake.
378 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
379 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
381 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
383 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
384 that use them. The options are:
385 --sourcedir, --destdir
386 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
387 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
388 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
389 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
390 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
394 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
400 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
403 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
404 default. Closes: #537140
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
408 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
411 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
412 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
416 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
419 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
423 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
426 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
430 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
433 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
435 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
436 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
437 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
441 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
444 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
445 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
446 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
450 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
453 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
454 warning or deprecation message.
455 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
456 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
457 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
458 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
459 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
460 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
461 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
462 Closes: #534639, #357434
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
466 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
472 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
475 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
476 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
477 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
478 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
480 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
481 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
482 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
486 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
492 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
499 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
502 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
506 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
508 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
510 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
511 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
513 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
514 file support. Closes: #494914
515 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
519 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
522 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
523 parameters. Closes: #527256
524 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
525 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
526 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
530 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
534 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
535 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
536 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
540 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
543 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
544 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
545 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
549 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
552 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
553 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
555 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
556 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
557 by triggers). Closes: #521181
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
561 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
565 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
569 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
572 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
573 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
574 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
575 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
580 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
586 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
589 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
590 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
591 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
592 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
593 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
595 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
596 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
597 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
598 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
599 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
600 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
604 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
607 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
608 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
609 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
610 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
611 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
613 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
617 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
619 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
623 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
625 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
626 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
627 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
628 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
629 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
630 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
631 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
632 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
633 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
634 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
635 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
639 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
641 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
642 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
644 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
645 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
646 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
647 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
649 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
650 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
654 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
656 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
657 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
658 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
659 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
660 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
661 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
662 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
664 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
665 that uses them. Affected options are:
666 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
667 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
668 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
669 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
670 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
671 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
672 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
673 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
674 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
675 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
676 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
677 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
681 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
688 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
694 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
696 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
697 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
699 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
700 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
701 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
702 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
703 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
705 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
707 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
708 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
709 rules (see bug #509756).
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
713 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
719 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
720 * Typo. Closes: #493062
721 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
722 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
726 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
729 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
730 empty files. Closes: #490937
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
734 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
736 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
740 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
747 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
750 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
751 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
752 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
753 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
758 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
760 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
761 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
762 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
763 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
767 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
770 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
771 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
772 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
773 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
774 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
778 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
785 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
787 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
788 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
789 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
790 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
791 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
792 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
793 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
794 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
795 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
796 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
800 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
803 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
804 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
805 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
806 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
808 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
809 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
810 breaking backwards compatibility.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
814 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
817 message in perl 5.10.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
821 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
827 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Convert copyright file to new format.
830 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
834 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
837 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
841 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
844 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
845 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
846 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
847 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
848 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
849 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
850 logging by dh_listpackages.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
854 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
856 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
857 run and there are no packages of that type.
858 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
859 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
860 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
861 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
863 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
864 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
868 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
870 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
871 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
872 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
876 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
879 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
880 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
882 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
883 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
884 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
885 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
886 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
887 planned but not yet implemented.)
888 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
889 if the Makefile has such a target.
890 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
891 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
892 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
893 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
894 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
895 but not yet implemented.)
896 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
897 recommended default, especially when using dh.
898 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
899 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
900 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
902 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
904 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
905 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
907 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
908 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
909 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
914 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
917 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
918 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
922 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
924 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
925 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
926 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
930 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
936 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
942 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
945 just those installed by the program.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
949 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
952 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
953 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
957 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
960 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
961 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
962 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
963 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
967 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
970 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
971 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
975 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
978 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
979 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
983 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
986 with policy. Closes: #461392
987 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
988 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
989 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
990 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
991 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
995 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
998 Closes: #460340, #460351
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1002 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1005 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1006 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1007 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1008 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1012 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1015 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1016 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1017 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1018 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1019 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1020 package build directory won't work.
1021 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1022 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1023 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1024 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1025 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1026 mode. Closes: #459426
1027 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1032 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1035 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1039 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1043 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1044 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1045 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1046 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1047 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1048 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1052 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1055 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1056 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1057 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1058 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1062 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1065 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1066 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1067 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1068 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1069 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1073 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1076 debian/package.triggers files.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1080 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1083 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1087 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1090 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1091 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1092 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1093 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1098 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1101 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1105 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1108 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1109 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1111 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1116 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1120 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1121 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1122 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1126 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1133 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1140 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1143 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1145 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1146 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1147 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1149 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1150 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1151 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1155 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1158 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1159 * Update urls to web page.
1160 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1161 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1162 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1163 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1167 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1170 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1171 - typo in alternatives call
1172 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1174 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1175 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1179 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1182 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1187 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1193 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1199 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1202 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1204 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1205 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1206 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1207 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1208 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1209 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1210 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1211 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1212 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1213 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1214 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1218 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1221 package install. Closes: #415717
1222 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1223 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1224 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1225 script and then remove the python files.
1226 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1227 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1228 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1229 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1230 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1231 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1232 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1233 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1234 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1235 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1236 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1237 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1238 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1242 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Correct typo in french translation
1248 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1249 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1251 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1253 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1254 Closes: #406921, #381940
1255 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1257 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1258 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1259 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1260 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1261 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1262 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1263 specified). Closes: #381851
1264 * Misc minor changes.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1268 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1275 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1276 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1280 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1286 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1287 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1290 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1291 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1293 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1294 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1295 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1296 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1300 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1303 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1306 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1310 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1316 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1322 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1323 a difficult situation.
1324 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1325 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1326 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1327 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1328 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1329 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1330 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1331 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1332 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1333 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1337 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Non-maintainer upload.
1340 * Update of dh_python
1341 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1342 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1344 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1345 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1346 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1347 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1348 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1350 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1352 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * Non-maintainer upload.
1355 * Update of dh_python
1356 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1357 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1358 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1359 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1360 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1361 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1362 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1363 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1364 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1365 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1367 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1368 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1369 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1370 the not too-distant future).
1371 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1372 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1373 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1374 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1375 thus made the build fail.
1377 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1379 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Non-maintainer upload.
1382 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1384 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1386 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1389 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1390 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1391 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1392 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1393 package. Closes: #301424
1394 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1395 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1396 fonts). Closes: #372686
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1400 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1406 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1407 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1408 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1409 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1410 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1411 above, but already depends on that.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1415 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1418 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1419 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1420 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1421 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1422 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1426 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1432 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1438 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1439 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1443 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1446 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1450 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1454 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1455 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1456 new version (0.24.1).
1457 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1458 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1461 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1462 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1463 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1464 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1465 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1466 new directory on their own.
1467 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1468 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1472 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1475 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1476 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1477 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1478 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1482 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1485 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1486 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1487 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1488 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1489 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1493 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1499 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1503 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1504 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1508 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1509 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1513 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1515 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1516 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1518 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1519 ignored. Closes: #337664
1521 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1526 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1532 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1537 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1538 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1539 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1540 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1541 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1542 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1543 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1547 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1550 version. Closes: #350607
1551 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1552 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1553 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1554 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1558 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1561 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1562 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1563 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1567 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1574 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1580 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1583 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1587 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1590 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1591 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1592 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1593 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1594 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1595 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1599 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1602 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1603 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1608 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1611 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1615 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1618 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1622 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1625 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1626 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1627 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1628 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1629 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1630 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1634 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1638 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1639 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1640 link. Closes: #346405
1641 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1643 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1644 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1645 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1646 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1647 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1648 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1649 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1653 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1660 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1666 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1669 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1673 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1676 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1681 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1685 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1686 installed. Closes: #342033
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1690 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1693 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1694 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1695 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1700 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1706 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1712 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1716 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1717 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1718 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1722 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1725 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1730 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1737 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1743 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1746 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1747 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1748 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1749 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1750 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1751 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1752 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1754 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1758 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1761 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1762 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1766 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1769 in standard man dirs.
1770 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1774 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1780 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1783 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1788 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1802 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1805 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1806 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1810 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1813 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1814 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1815 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1817 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1819 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1825 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1831 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1834 mode. Closes: #324161
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1838 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1841 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1842 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1843 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1844 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1852 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1853 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1854 is necesary for sanity.
1855 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1856 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1861 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1863 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1864 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1868 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1871 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1881 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1884 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1885 released, so use at your own risk.
1886 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1887 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1889 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1890 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1891 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1892 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1893 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1894 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1895 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1896 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1897 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1898 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1899 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1900 including twice per config file line now..
1901 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1902 and simplfy the rules file.
1903 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1904 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1905 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1907 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1908 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1912 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1915 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1919 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1922 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1926 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1929 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1936 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1937 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1938 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1939 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1940 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1941 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1945 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1948 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1949 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1950 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1955 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1958 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1959 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1964 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1967 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1968 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1969 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1974 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1977 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1978 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1979 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1983 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1989 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1996 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1999 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2000 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2001 unknown. Closes: #282924
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2005 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2012 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Spanish man page updates.
2015 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2026 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2029 * dh_desktop: reindent
2030 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2031 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2041 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2043 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2047 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2049 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2053 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2056 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2057 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2061 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2067 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2080 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2083 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2090 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2091 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2092 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2093 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2094 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2095 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2097 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2098 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2099 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2100 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2101 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2102 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2103 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2104 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2105 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2106 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2107 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2108 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2109 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2110 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2111 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2112 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2116 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2123 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2126 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2130 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2133 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2140 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2144 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2147 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2151 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2157 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2163 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2169 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2172 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2173 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2174 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2178 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2181 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2185 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2188 but occasionally right and necessary.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2192 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2195 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2196 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2197 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2198 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2199 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2203 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2206 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2208 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2209 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2210 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2211 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2212 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2213 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2214 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2215 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2216 postinst scripts for udebs.
2217 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2221 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2224 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2226 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2227 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2231 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2237 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2244 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2251 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2254 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2258 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2261 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2265 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2268 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2271 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2272 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2276 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2282 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2285 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2289 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2292 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2293 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2294 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2296 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2298 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2299 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2300 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2304 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2307 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2312 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2315 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2316 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2317 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2322 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2328 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2337 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2338 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2339 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2340 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2341 associated -dbg packages.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2345 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2348 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2355 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2362 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2369 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2374 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2377 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2381 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2384 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2392 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2396 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2400 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2401 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2402 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2403 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2404 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2405 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2406 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2407 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2408 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2409 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2416 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2424 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2425 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2432 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2433 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2441 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2445 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2448 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2452 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2455 out section number. Closes: #204731
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2466 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2472 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2478 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2481 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2482 removal. Closes: #204286
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2486 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2489 renaming. Closes: #203548
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2493 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2496 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2497 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2507 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2513 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2519 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2522 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2523 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2524 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2531 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2532 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2542 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2549 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2552 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2557 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2560 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2567 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2569 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2570 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2574 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2577 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2582 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2585 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2589 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2595 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2597 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2604 it break hard links (see #188663).
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2611 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2621 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2625 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2626 debconf-mergetemplates
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2630 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2633 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2637 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2640 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2644 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2647 * Update debhelper(1).
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2651 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2654 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2655 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2656 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2657 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2658 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2662 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2665 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2666 the shell. Closes: #178524
2667 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2671 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2674 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2678 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2681 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2685 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2688 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2689 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2690 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2691 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2696 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2699 files from installation.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2703 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2706 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2707 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2711 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2714 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2718 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2721 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2725 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2731 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2737 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2741 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2742 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2744 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2748 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2751 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2752 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2753 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2754 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2758 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2761 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2765 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2768 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2769 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2773 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2777 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2782 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2788 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2792 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2793 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2794 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2799 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2802 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2803 practice. Closes: #163303
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2807 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2813 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2820 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2823 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2825 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2826 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2827 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2828 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2829 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2833 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2836 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2841 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2847 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2854 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2857 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2862 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2868 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2874 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2880 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2887 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2890 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2891 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2892 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2893 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2898 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2904 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2911 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2914 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2915 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2919 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2922 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2923 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2924 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2925 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2926 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2930 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2933 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2935 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2940 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2943 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2947 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2950 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2951 right thing. Closes: #150644
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2955 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Stupid, evil typo.
2958 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2962 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2972 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2973 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2978 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2984 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2987 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2991 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2994 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2995 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3000 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3003 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3007 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3013 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3016 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3017 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3021 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3027 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Removing perl warning message.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3036 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3037 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3038 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3039 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3040 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3041 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3042 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3043 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3053 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3060 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3063 debconf-mergetemplate.
3064 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3065 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3069 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3072 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3073 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3074 dh_install, which ...
3075 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3076 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3077 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3078 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3079 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3080 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3081 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3082 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3083 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3084 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3085 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3086 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3087 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3088 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3089 other minor changes.
3090 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3091 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3092 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3093 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3094 course there's -X ..)
3095 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3096 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3097 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3099 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3100 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3101 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3102 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3103 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3108 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3114 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3117 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3121 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3127 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3133 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3139 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3145 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3148 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3149 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3150 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3151 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3153 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3154 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3158 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3164 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3167 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3171 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3174 upset. Closes: #131322
3176 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3178 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3181 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3182 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3183 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3184 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3185 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3186 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3187 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3188 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3189 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3190 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3191 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3192 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3193 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3194 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3195 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3197 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3201 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3204 - Better indenting of generated code.
3205 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3209 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3213 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3214 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3215 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3216 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3217 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3218 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3219 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3223 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3226 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3230 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3233 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3234 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3235 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3236 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3237 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3238 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3239 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3240 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3241 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3242 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3243 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3244 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3245 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3246 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3247 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3252 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3258 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3261 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3262 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3266 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3269 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3270 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3274 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3280 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3283 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3284 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3285 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3286 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3287 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3292 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3298 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3301 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3305 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3308 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3313 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3319 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3322 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3326 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3332 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3336 Also some indentation fixes.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3340 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3343 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3344 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3345 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3346 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3347 Closes: #106514, #85520
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3351 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3357 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3363 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3369 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3375 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3381 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3384 change it in debhelper v4..
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3388 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3394 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3397 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3401 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3404 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3408 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3414 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3417 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3418 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3419 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3420 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3421 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3422 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3423 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3424 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3425 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3426 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3427 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3428 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3432 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3435 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3439 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3446 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3449 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3450 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3451 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3452 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3453 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3454 program those options go to. So, for example,
3455 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3456 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3457 something complex. Closes: #89311
3458 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3462 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3465 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3466 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3467 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3471 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3474 through loop. Closes: #98598
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3478 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Missing semi-colon.
3481 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3482 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3486 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3489 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3490 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3491 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3495 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3498 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3499 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3503 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3506 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3510 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3513 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3514 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3518 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3521 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3522 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3523 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3527 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3530 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3531 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3532 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3536 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3539 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3543 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3549 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3555 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3561 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3567 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3570 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3574 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3577 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3578 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3579 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3580 followed. Closes: #85483
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3584 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3586 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3587 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3588 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3592 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3595 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3596 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3597 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3598 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3599 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3600 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3601 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3602 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3603 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3604 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3605 Closes: #88464, #77743
3606 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3607 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3608 us to deal with that gracefully.
3609 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3611 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3612 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3613 a while, Closes: #51225
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3617 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3623 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3626 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3630 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3634 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3639 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3642 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3643 don't make packlist files.
3644 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3645 debhelper coding standards.
3646 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3647 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3651 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3654 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3658 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3661 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3662 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3663 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3664 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3665 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3666 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3667 but is mildly deprecated.
3668 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3669 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3670 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3671 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3672 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3673 switching to statoverrides..
3674 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3675 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3676 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3677 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3678 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3679 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3681 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3682 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3683 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3684 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3685 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3686 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3687 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3688 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3689 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3691 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3692 variable names, pod man pages).
3693 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3694 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3695 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3696 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3697 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3698 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3699 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3703 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3709 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3716 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3719 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3723 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3725 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3726 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3727 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3731 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3733 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3734 they were previously ignored.
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3738 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3740 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3741 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3745 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3747 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3748 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3749 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3755 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3761 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3762 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3766 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3768 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3769 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3770 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3771 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3772 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3773 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3774 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3775 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3776 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3777 it is an obsolete program.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3781 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3783 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3787 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3791 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3793 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3797 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3799 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3801 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3803 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3807 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3813 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * typo: Closes, #78567
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3819 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3825 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3831 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3834 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3835 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3836 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3837 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3838 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3842 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3845 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3850 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3853 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3854 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3855 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3856 backwards-compatibility.
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3860 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3863 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3864 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3865 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3866 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3867 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3868 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3870 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3871 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3872 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3874 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3876 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3877 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3878 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3879 should now be raised to severity important..
3880 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3881 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3885 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3888 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3893 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3899 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3905 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3911 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3918 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3921 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3922 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3923 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3924 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3928 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3934 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3937 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3938 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3939 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3940 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3941 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3942 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3947 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3950 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3954 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3960 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3963 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3968 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3971 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3972 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3973 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3974 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3978 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3982 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3985 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3988 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3989 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3992 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3994 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3995 the TODO entry about it.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4006 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4009 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4010 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4014 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4017 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4018 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4019 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4020 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4024 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4037 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4040 (this appears to be logal).
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4044 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4047 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4048 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4049 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4050 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4054 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4063 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4064 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4065 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4066 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4079 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4083 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4090 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4093 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4094 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4095 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4100 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4107 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4113 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4116 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4117 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4118 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4119 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4120 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4121 notice until v2 is complete.
4122 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4123 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4124 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4125 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4126 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4127 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4129 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4130 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4131 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4132 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4142 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4149 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4152 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4156 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4163 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4166 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4167 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4168 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4169 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4174 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4177 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4178 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4179 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4184 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4187 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4188 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4192 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4195 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4199 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4202 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4216 depend on the build and install targets.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4220 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4223 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4227 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4234 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4240 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4246 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4249 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4250 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4251 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4252 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4253 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4254 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4256 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4257 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4258 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4259 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4260 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4261 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4262 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4266 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4272 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4278 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4281 right place. Closes: #55065
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4285 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4292 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4295 * Copyright date updates.
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4299 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4302 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4307 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4313 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4320 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4326 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4332 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4338 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4341 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4342 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4343 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4344 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4345 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4346 bits until all files have been registered.
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4350 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * dh_installmanpages:
4353 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4354 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4355 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4356 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4357 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4358 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4359 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4360 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4361 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4362 otherwise change the result at all.
4364 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4365 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4366 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4367 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4368 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4373 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4379 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4382 act on files that don't exist.
4383 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4384 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4385 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4387 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4388 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4389 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4390 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4394 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4400 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4406 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4409 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4413 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4416 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4418 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4419 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4420 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4424 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4427 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4428 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4429 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4430 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4431 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4432 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4433 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4435 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4437 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4441 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4448 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4454 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4460 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4463 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4467 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4473 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4479 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4482 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4483 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4484 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4485 I made some changes, though:
4486 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4487 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4488 that is a clear violation of policy.
4489 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4490 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4491 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4492 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4493 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4494 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4495 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4496 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4497 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4499 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4503 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4509 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4512 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4516 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4519 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4520 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4525 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4531 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4538 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4541 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4542 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4543 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4544 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4545 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4546 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4547 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4551 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4557 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4561 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4562 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4566 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4572 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4575 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4579 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4582 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4583 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4589 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4598 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4602 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4605 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4606 for the dependancies to be generated.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4613 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4617 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4620 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4621 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4622 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4630 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4631 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4635 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4641 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4647 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4650 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4654 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4660 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4663 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4664 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4665 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4666 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4667 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4668 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4669 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4670 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4671 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4672 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4673 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4674 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4678 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4681 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4682 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4684 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4685 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4686 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4687 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4688 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4689 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4691 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4692 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4696 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4699 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4713 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4718 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4721 for building debhelper.
4722 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4726 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4733 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4736 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4740 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4743 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4744 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4745 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4746 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4747 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4748 it's always available.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4752 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4755 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4756 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4757 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4761 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4764 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4765 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4778 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4788 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4791 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4792 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4793 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4797 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4800 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4805 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4808 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4809 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4811 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4812 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4816 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4822 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4828 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4831 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4835 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4838 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4839 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4841 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4845 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4848 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4849 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4850 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4854 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4857 things if CDPATH is set.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4861 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4867 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4870 seems to make sense for the transition.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4874 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4877 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4882 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4885 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4886 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4890 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4893 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4897 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4900 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4901 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4902 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4903 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4907 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4913 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4916 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4917 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4918 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4919 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4920 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4921 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4922 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4923 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4924 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4925 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4930 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4933 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4934 * README: mention doc/v2
4935 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4936 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4940 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4942 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4943 be using this script RSN.
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4947 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4950 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4951 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4952 more than 1 init script.
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4956 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4959 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4963 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * Changed perl version detection.
4966 * Changed call to find.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4970 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4973 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4975 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4980 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * Really include dh_installpam.
4984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4986 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4988 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4989 * Wrote man page for same.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4993 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4996 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4997 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5002 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5009 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5012 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5013 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5014 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5015 x bit was being set!
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5019 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5022 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5023 well. (Closes: 38900)
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5027 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5030 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5031 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5035 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5041 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5048 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5054 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5057 help from Julian Gilbey.
5058 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5059 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5060 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5061 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5062 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5063 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5064 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5069 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5075 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5082 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5088 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5094 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5097 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5101 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5104 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5108 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5111 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5115 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5121 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5124 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5128 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5134 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5140 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5143 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5144 may be deleted. (#35845)
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5148 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * Various man page enhancements.
5151 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5156 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5159 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5160 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5167 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5168 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5169 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5171 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5172 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5177 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5183 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * Another very minor typo fix.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5189 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * Very minor typo fix.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5195 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5198 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5199 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5203 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5209 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5212 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5213 variables properly (#34850).
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5217 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5223 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5226 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5227 (automatically generated by build process).
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5231 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5233 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5237 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5240 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5241 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5243 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5247 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5250 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5254 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * README: minor typo fix.
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5260 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5263 leave it at that. :-)
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5267 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5273 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5279 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5282 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5283 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5284 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5288 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5291 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5295 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5298 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5302 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5305 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5306 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5307 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5308 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5312 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5315 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5316 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5317 Craig Small for spotting this.
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5321 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5324 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5325 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5329 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5335 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5338 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5342 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5344 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5345 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5346 working on the last version of debhelper.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5350 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5353 being made. (#23255)
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5357 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5363 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5366 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5370 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5373 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5374 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5375 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5376 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5380 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5383 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5384 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5385 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5386 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5388 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5389 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5391 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5396 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5402 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5408 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5411 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5412 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5413 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5414 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5415 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5416 suidregister actually supports it.
5417 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5418 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5422 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5429 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5432 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5433 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5434 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5435 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5436 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5437 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5438 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5442 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5444 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5445 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5449 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5452 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5453 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5454 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5455 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5459 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5462 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5464 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5465 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5466 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5467 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5468 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5469 effect, either. (#30118)
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5473 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5479 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5482 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5483 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5487 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5493 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5496 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5497 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5498 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5499 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5503 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5506 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5507 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5511 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5517 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5520 packages, painlessly.
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5524 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5530 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5536 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5542 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * The perl conversion is complete.
5546 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5548 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5549 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5550 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5555 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5558 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5559 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5560 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5564 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5567 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5569 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5571 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5572 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5576 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5579 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5580 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5584 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5590 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5593 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5594 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5595 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5596 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5597 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5601 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5604 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5605 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5606 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5607 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5611 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5614 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5618 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5621 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5622 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5623 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5624 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5625 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5626 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5627 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5628 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5632 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5638 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5641 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5642 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5643 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5648 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5651 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5655 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5658 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5662 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5665 sections of shared libraries.
5666 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5667 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5668 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5669 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5670 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5671 things you don't want them to.
5672 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5673 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5677 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5680 shared libraries. (#26414)
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5684 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5686 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5687 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5688 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5689 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5693 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5697 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5699 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5700 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5701 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5702 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5703 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5707 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5710 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5714 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5717 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5718 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5723 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5726 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5730 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5733 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5734 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5735 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5736 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5737 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5739 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5740 remove debian/files properly.
5741 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5742 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5743 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5744 * Removed bogus menu file.
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5748 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5751 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5755 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5758 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5759 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5760 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5761 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5762 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5763 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5767 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5770 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5771 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5772 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5773 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5777 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5784 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5787 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5788 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5790 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5791 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5792 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5793 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5794 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5795 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5799 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5802 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5803 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5804 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5805 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5806 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5807 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5808 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5809 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5810 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5811 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5812 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5813 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5814 passed any switches.
5815 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5819 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5822 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5823 at all for a long while.
5824 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5825 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5826 large chunks in the process.
5827 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5828 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5829 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5834 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5837 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5839 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5844 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5847 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5848 that don't always have the same files in them.
5849 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5850 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5851 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5855 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5859 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5860 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5861 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5862 updating 27 man pages.
5863 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5864 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5865 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5866 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5867 programs act on. (#25247)
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5871 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5875 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5876 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5877 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5878 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5879 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5880 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5885 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5892 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5899 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5902 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5906 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5912 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5915 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5916 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5917 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5918 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5919 package by accident.
5920 * Is version 1.0 next?
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5924 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5927 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5928 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5932 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5935 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5936 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5937 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5938 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5939 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5941 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5946 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5949 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5950 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5954 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5956 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5957 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5961 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5964 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5965 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5970 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5976 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5979 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5980 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5985 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5991 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5994 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5995 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5996 past week. Thanks, guys!
5998 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5999 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6000 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6001 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6002 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6003 would do in the same situation.
6004 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6005 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6007 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6009 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6010 permissions changed.
6011 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6012 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6013 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6014 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6015 files are treated identically.
6016 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6017 * Minor man page fixes.
6018 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6019 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6020 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6024 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6027 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6028 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6029 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6030 use -X multiple times, too.
6031 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6032 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6036 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6039 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6040 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6044 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6046 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6047 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6051 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6054 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6055 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6056 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6057 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6058 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6059 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6060 shape if you're starting a new package.
6062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6064 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6066 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6067 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6071 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6074 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6075 because of missing symlinks.
6077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6079 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6081 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6085 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6088 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6089 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6090 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6091 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6092 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6094 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6095 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6099 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6101 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6102 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6103 to be changed after the fact :-)
6104 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6108 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6110 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6111 no version string after the -V.
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6115 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6117 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6118 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6123 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6126 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6130 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6132 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6133 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6134 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6135 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6136 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6137 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6138 I always welcome corrections!
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6142 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6148 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6150 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6151 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6152 * Documented this new switch.
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6156 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6159 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6160 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6161 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6162 no packages use the old behavior.
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6166 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6169 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6170 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6174 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6176 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6177 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6181 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6187 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6190 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6194 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6196 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6197 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6198 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6199 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6203 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6209 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6212 into the source package by accident.
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6216 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6219 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6220 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6221 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6222 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6223 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6224 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6229 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6231 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6233 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6234 inspired to implement some of it.
6235 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6239 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6241 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6242 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6246 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6249 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6250 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6254 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6257 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6258 have done.) (#17598)
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6262 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6268 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6274 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6277 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6281 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6283 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6284 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6285 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6289 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6291 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6292 argument processor in perl.
6293 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6294 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6295 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6296 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6300 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6303 type directories. (#16933)
6304 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6305 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6306 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6307 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6308 are supported. (#16935)
6309 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6314 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6316 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6317 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6321 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6323 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6325 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6326 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6327 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6328 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6329 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6330 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6334 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6336 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6337 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6338 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6340 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6341 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6342 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6343 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6344 a given package, or -i or -a.
6345 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6346 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6347 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6348 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6349 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6350 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6351 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6352 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6353 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6355 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6356 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6357 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6361 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6364 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6365 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6370 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6372 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6373 does not have a section.
6375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6377 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6379 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6380 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6381 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6382 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6386 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * Fixed typo #16215.
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6392 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6395 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6396 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6397 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6398 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6399 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6404 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6406 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6407 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6408 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6409 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6414 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6416 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6420 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6426 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6428 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6429 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6430 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6431 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6432 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6433 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6434 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6438 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6440 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6444 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6446 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6447 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6451 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6453 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6454 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6455 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6456 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6460 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6462 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6463 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6467 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6469 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6473 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6476 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6480 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6482 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6483 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6487 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6493 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6495 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6496 postinst, postrm, etc.
6498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6500 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6502 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6506 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6508 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6509 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6510 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6511 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6512 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6513 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6517 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6520 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6521 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6525 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6527 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6528 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6532 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6534 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6535 installing package files into.
6536 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6541 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6545 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6549 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6551 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6555 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6558 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6562 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6564 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6565 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6566 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6567 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6568 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6572 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6574 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6575 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6576 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6577 multiple binary packages.
6578 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6579 should rebuild them with this version.
6580 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6584 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6586 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6587 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6591 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6593 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6594 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6598 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6600 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6601 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6602 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6603 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6604 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6605 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6606 debian/README.debian.
6607 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6608 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6609 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6610 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6611 in a few situations.)
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6615 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6617 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6621 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6623 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6627 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6630 * Fixed several man pages.
6632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6634 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6636 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6637 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6638 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6642 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6644 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6645 is ready for general use.
6646 * Added man pages for all commands.
6647 * Multiple binary package support.
6648 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6649 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6650 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6652 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6653 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6654 auto-installed as parameters.
6655 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6657 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6660 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6661 the package build directory it is to act on.
6662 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6663 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6664 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6668 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6670 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6671 ready to replace debstd.
6673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400