1 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
3 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
4 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
5 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
6 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
7 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
8 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
9 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
10 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
11 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
12 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
13 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
17 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
19 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
20 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
22 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
23 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
24 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
25 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
27 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
28 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
32 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
34 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
35 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
36 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
37 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
38 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
39 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
40 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
42 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
43 that uses them. Affected options are:
44 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
45 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
46 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
47 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
48 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
49 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
50 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
51 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
52 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
53 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
54 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
55 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
59 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
61 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
62 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
64 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
65 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
66 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
67 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
68 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
70 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
72 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
73 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
74 rules (see bug #509756).
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
78 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
81 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
84 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
85 * Typo. Closes: #493062
86 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
87 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
91 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
94 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
95 empty files. Closes: #490937
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
99 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
105 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
112 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
115 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
116 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
117 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
118 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
123 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
125 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
126 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
127 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
128 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
132 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
135 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
136 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
137 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
138 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
139 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
143 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
150 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
152 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
153 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
154 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
155 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
156 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
157 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
158 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
159 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
160 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
161 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
165 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
168 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
169 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
170 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
171 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
173 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
174 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
175 breaking backwards compatability.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
179 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
182 message in perl 5.10.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
186 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
192 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Convert copyright file to new format.
195 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
199 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
202 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
206 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
209 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
210 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
211 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
212 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
213 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
214 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
215 logging by dh_listpackages.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
219 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
222 run and there are no packages of that type.
223 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
224 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
225 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
226 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
228 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
229 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
233 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
235 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
236 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
237 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
241 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
244 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
245 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
247 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
248 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
249 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
250 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
251 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
252 planned but not yet implemented.)
253 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
254 if the Makefile has such a target.
255 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
256 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
257 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
258 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
259 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
260 but not yet implemented.)
261 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
262 recommended default, especially when using dh.
263 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
264 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
265 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
267 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
269 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
270 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
272 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
273 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
274 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
279 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
282 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
283 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
287 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
289 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
290 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
291 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
295 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
301 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
307 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
310 just those installed by the program.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
314 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
317 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
318 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
322 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
325 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
326 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
327 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
328 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
332 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
335 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
336 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
340 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
343 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
344 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
348 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
351 with policy. Closes: #461392
352 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
353 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
354 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
355 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
356 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
360 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
363 Closes: #460340, #460351
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
367 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
370 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
371 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
372 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
373 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
377 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
380 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
381 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
382 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
383 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
384 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
385 package build directory won't work.
386 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
387 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
388 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
389 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
390 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
391 mode. Closes: #459426
392 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
397 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
400 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
404 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
408 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
409 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
410 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
411 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
412 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
413 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
417 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
420 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
421 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
422 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
423 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
427 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
430 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
431 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
432 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
433 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
434 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
438 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
441 debian/package.triggers files.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
445 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
448 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
452 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
455 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
456 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
457 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
458 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
463 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
466 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
470 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
473 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
474 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
476 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
481 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
485 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
486 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
487 * Typo. Closes: #441272
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
491 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
498 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
505 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
508 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
510 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
511 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
512 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
514 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
515 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
516 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
520 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
523 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
524 * Update urls to web page.
525 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
527 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
528 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
532 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
535 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
536 - typo in alternatives call
537 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
539 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
540 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
544 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
547 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
552 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
558 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
564 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
567 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
569 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
570 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
571 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
572 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
573 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
574 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
575 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
576 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
577 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
578 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
579 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
583 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
586 package install. Closes: #415717
587 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
588 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
589 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
590 script and then remove the python files.
591 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
592 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
593 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
594 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
595 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
596 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
597 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
598 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
599 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
600 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
601 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
602 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
603 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
607 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Correct typo in french translation
613 * Typo. Closes: #400571
614 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
616 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
618 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
619 Closes: #406921, #381940
620 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
622 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
623 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
624 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
625 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
626 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
627 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
628 specified). Closes: #381851
629 * Misc minor changes.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
633 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
640 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
641 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
645 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
651 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
652 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
655 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
656 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
658 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
659 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
660 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
661 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
665 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
668 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
671 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
675 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
681 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
687 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
688 a difficult situation.
689 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
690 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
691 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
692 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
693 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
694 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
695 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
696 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
697 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
698 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
702 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Non-maintainer upload.
705 * Update of dh_python
706 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
707 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
709 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
710 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
711 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
712 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
713 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
715 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
717 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Non-maintainer upload.
720 * Update of dh_python
721 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
722 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
723 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
724 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
725 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
726 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
727 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
728 specific python version. Closes: #373853
729 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
730 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
732 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
733 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
734 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
735 the not too-distant future).
736 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
737 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
738 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
739 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
740 thus made the build fail.
742 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
744 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Non-maintainer upload.
747 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
749 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
751 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
754 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
755 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
756 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
757 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
758 package. Closes: #301424
759 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
760 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
761 fonts). Closes: #372686
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
765 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
771 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
772 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
773 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
774 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
775 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
776 above, but already depends on that.
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
780 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
783 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
784 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
785 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
786 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
787 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
791 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
797 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
800 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
803 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
804 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
808 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
811 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
815 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
819 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
820 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
821 new version (0.24.1).
822 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
823 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
826 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
827 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
828 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
829 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
830 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
831 new directory on their own.
832 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
833 * Fix broken directory removal code.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
837 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
840 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
841 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
842 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
843 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
847 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
850 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
851 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
852 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
853 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
854 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
858 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
864 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Typo. Closes: #358904
868 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
869 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
873 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
874 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
878 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
880 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
881 || exit 0 instead of the intended
883 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
884 ignored. Closes: #337664
886 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
891 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
897 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
902 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
903 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
904 the dh_installdebconf manpage
905 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
906 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
907 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
908 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
912 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
915 version. Closes: #350607
916 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
917 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
918 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
919 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
923 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
926 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
927 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
928 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
932 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
939 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Minor bug fix from last release.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
945 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
948 language guessing. Closes: #193221
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
952 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
954 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
955 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
956 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
957 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
958 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
959 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
960 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
964 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
967 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
968 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
973 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
976 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
980 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
983 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
987 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
990 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
991 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
992 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
993 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
994 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
995 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
999 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1003 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1004 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1005 link. Closes: #346405
1006 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1008 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1009 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1010 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1011 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1012 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1013 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1014 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1018 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1025 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1031 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1034 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1038 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1041 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1046 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1050 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1051 installed. Closes: #342033
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1055 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1058 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1059 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1060 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1065 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1071 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1077 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1081 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1082 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1083 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1087 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1090 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1095 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1102 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1108 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1111 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1112 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1113 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1114 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1115 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1116 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1117 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1119 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1123 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1126 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1127 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1131 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1134 in standard man dirs.
1135 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1139 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1145 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1148 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1153 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1160 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1167 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1170 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1171 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1175 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1178 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1179 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1180 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1182 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1184 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1190 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1196 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1199 mode. Closes: #324161
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1203 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1206 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1207 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1208 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1209 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1214 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1217 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1218 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1219 is necesary for sanity.
1220 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1221 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1226 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1228 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1229 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1233 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1236 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1240 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1246 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1249 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1250 released, so use at your own risk.
1251 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1252 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1254 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1255 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1256 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1257 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1258 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1259 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1260 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1261 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1262 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1263 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1264 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1265 including twice per config file line now..
1266 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1267 and simplfy the rules file.
1268 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1269 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1270 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1272 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1273 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1277 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1280 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1284 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1287 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1291 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1294 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1298 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1301 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1302 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1303 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1304 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1305 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1306 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1310 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1313 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1314 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1315 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1320 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1323 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1324 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1329 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1332 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1333 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1334 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1339 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1342 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1343 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1344 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1348 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1354 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1361 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1364 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1365 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1366 unknown. Closes: #282924
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1370 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1377 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Spanish man page updates.
1380 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1385 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1391 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1394 * dh_desktop: reindent
1395 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1396 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1400 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1406 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1408 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1412 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1414 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1418 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1421 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1422 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1426 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1432 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1438 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1445 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1448 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1452 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1455 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1456 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1457 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1458 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1459 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1460 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1462 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1463 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1464 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1465 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1466 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1467 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1468 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1469 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1470 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1471 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1472 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1473 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1474 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1475 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1476 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1477 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1481 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1488 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1491 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1495 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1498 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1502 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1505 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1509 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1512 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1516 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1522 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1528 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1534 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1537 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1538 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1539 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1543 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1546 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1550 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1553 but occasionally right and necessary.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1557 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1560 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1561 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1562 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1563 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1564 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1568 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1571 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1573 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1574 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1575 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1576 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1577 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1578 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1579 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1580 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1581 postinst scripts for udebs.
1582 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1586 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1589 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1591 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1592 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1596 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1602 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1609 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1616 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1619 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1623 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1626 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1630 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1633 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1636 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1637 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1641 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1647 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1650 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1654 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1657 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1658 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1659 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1661 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1663 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1664 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1665 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1669 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1672 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1677 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1680 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1681 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1682 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1687 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1693 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1699 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1702 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1703 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1704 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1705 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1706 associated -dbg packages.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1710 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1713 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1717 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1720 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1724 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1727 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1731 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1734 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1739 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1742 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1746 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1749 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1754 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1757 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1761 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1765 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1766 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1767 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1768 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1769 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1770 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1771 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1772 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1773 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1774 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1778 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1781 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1786 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1789 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1790 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1794 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1797 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1798 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1803 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1806 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1810 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1813 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1817 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1820 out section number. Closes: #204731
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1831 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1837 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1846 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1847 removal. Closes: #204286
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1854 renaming. Closes: #203548
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1858 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1861 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1862 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1866 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1872 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1878 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1884 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1887 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1888 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1889 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1893 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1896 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1897 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1901 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1907 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1914 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1917 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1925 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1929 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1932 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1934 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1935 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1942 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1950 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1960 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1962 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1969 it break hard links (see #188663).
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1976 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1980 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1986 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1990 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1991 debconf-mergetemplates
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1995 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1998 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2002 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2005 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2009 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2012 * Update debhelper(1).
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2016 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2019 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2020 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2021 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2022 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2023 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2027 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2030 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2031 the shell. Closes: #178524
2032 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2036 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2039 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2043 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2046 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2050 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2053 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2054 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2055 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2056 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2061 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2064 files from installation.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2068 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2071 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2072 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2076 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2079 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2083 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2086 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2090 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2096 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2102 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2106 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2107 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2109 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2113 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2116 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2117 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2118 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2119 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2123 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2126 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2130 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2133 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2134 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2138 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2142 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2147 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2157 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2158 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2159 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2164 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2167 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2168 practice. Closes: #163303
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2172 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2178 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2185 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2188 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2190 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2191 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2192 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2193 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2194 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2198 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2201 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2206 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2212 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2219 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2222 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2227 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2233 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2252 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2255 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2256 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2257 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2258 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2263 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2269 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2276 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2279 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2280 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2284 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2287 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2288 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2289 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2290 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2291 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2298 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2300 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2305 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2308 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2312 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2315 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2316 right thing. Closes: #150644
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2320 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Stupid, evil typo.
2323 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2337 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2338 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2349 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2352 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2356 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2359 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2360 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2368 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2378 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2381 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2382 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2386 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2392 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Removing perl warning message.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2401 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2402 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2403 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2404 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2405 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2406 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2407 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2408 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2425 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2428 debconf-mergetemplate.
2429 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2430 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2434 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2437 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2438 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2439 dh_install, which ...
2440 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2441 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2442 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2443 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2444 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2445 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2446 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2447 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2448 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2449 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2450 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2451 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2452 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2453 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2454 other minor changes.
2455 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2456 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2457 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2458 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2459 course there's -X ..)
2460 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2461 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2462 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2464 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2465 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2466 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2467 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2468 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2473 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2479 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2482 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2486 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2492 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2498 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2504 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2510 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2513 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2514 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2515 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2516 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2518 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2519 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2523 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2529 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2532 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2536 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2539 upset. Closes: #131322
2541 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2543 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2546 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2547 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2548 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2549 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2550 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2551 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2552 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2553 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2554 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2555 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2556 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2557 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2558 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2559 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2560 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2562 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2566 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2569 - Better indenting of generated code.
2570 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2574 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2578 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2579 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2580 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2581 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2582 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2583 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2584 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2588 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2591 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2595 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2598 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2599 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2600 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2601 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2602 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2603 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2604 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2605 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2606 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2607 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2608 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2609 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2610 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2611 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2612 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2617 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2623 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2626 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2627 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2631 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2634 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2635 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2639 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2645 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2648 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2649 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2650 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2651 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2652 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2657 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2663 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2666 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2670 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2673 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2678 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2684 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2687 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2691 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2697 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2701 Also some indentation fixes.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2705 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2708 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2709 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2710 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2711 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2712 Closes: #106514, #85520
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2716 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2722 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2728 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2734 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2740 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2746 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2749 change it in debhelper v4..
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2753 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2759 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2762 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2766 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2769 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2773 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2779 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2782 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2783 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2784 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2785 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2786 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2787 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2788 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2789 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2790 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2791 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2792 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2793 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2797 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2800 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2804 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2811 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2814 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2815 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2816 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2817 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2818 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2819 program those options go to. So, for example,
2820 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2821 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2822 something complex. Closes: #89311
2823 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2827 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2830 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2831 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2832 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2836 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2839 through loop. Closes: #98598
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2843 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Missing semi-colon.
2846 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2847 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2851 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2854 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2855 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2856 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2860 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2863 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2864 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2868 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2871 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2875 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2878 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2879 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2883 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2886 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2887 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2888 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2892 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2895 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2896 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2897 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2901 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2904 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2908 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2914 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2920 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2926 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2932 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2935 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2939 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2942 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2943 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2944 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2945 followed. Closes: #85483
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2949 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2951 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2952 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2953 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2957 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2960 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2961 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2962 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2963 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2964 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2965 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2966 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2967 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2968 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2969 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2970 Closes: #88464, #77743
2971 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2972 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2973 us to deal with that gracefully.
2974 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2976 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2977 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2978 a while, Closes: #51225
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2982 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2988 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2991 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2995 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2999 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3004 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3007 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3008 don't make packlist files.
3009 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3010 debhelper coding standards.
3011 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3012 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3016 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3019 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3023 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3026 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3027 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3028 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3029 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3030 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3031 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3032 but is mildly deprecated.
3033 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3034 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3035 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3036 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3037 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3038 switching to statoverrides..
3039 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3040 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3041 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3042 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3043 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3044 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3046 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3047 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3048 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3049 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3050 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3051 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3052 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3053 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3054 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3056 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3057 variable names, pod man pages).
3058 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3059 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3060 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3061 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3062 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3063 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3064 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3068 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3074 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3081 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3084 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3088 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3090 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3091 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3092 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3096 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3098 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3099 they were previously ignored.
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3103 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3105 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3106 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3110 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3112 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3113 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3114 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3118 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3120 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3124 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3126 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3127 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3131 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3133 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3134 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3135 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3136 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3137 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3138 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3139 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3140 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3141 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3142 it is an obsolete program.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3146 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3148 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3152 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3156 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3158 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3162 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3164 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3166 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3168 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3172 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3178 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * typo: Closes, #78567
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3184 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3190 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3196 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3199 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3200 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3201 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3202 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3203 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3207 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3210 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3215 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3218 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3219 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3220 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3221 backwards-compatability.
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3225 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3228 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3229 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3230 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3231 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3232 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3233 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3235 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3236 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3237 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3239 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3241 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3242 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3243 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3244 should now be raised to severity important..
3245 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3246 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3250 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3253 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3258 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3264 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3270 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3276 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3283 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3286 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3287 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3288 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3289 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3293 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3299 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3302 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3303 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3304 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3305 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3306 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3307 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3312 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3315 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3319 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3325 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3328 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3333 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3336 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3337 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3338 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3339 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3343 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3347 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3350 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3353 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3354 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3357 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3359 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3360 the TODO entry about it.
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3364 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3371 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3374 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3375 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3379 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3382 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3383 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3384 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3385 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3389 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3395 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3402 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3405 (this appears to be logal).
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3409 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3412 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3413 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3414 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3415 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3419 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3425 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3428 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3429 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3430 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3431 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3435 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3441 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3444 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3448 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3455 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3458 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3459 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3460 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3465 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3472 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3478 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3481 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3482 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3483 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3484 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3485 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3486 notice until v2 is complete.
3487 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3488 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3489 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3490 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3491 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3492 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3494 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3495 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3496 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3497 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3501 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3507 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3514 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3517 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3521 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3528 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3531 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3532 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3533 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3534 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3539 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3542 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3543 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3544 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3549 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3552 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3553 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3557 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3560 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3564 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3567 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3571 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3578 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3581 depend on the build and install targets.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3585 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3588 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3592 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3599 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3605 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3611 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3614 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3615 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3616 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3617 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3618 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3619 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3621 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3622 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3623 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3624 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3625 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3626 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3627 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3631 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3637 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3643 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3646 right place. Closes: #55065
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3650 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3657 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3660 * Copyright date updates.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3664 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3667 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3672 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3678 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3685 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3691 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3697 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3703 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3706 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3707 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3708 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3709 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3710 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3711 bits until all files have been registered.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3715 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_installmanpages:
3718 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3719 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3720 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3721 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3722 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3723 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3724 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3725 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3726 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3727 otherwise change the result at all.
3729 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3730 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3731 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3732 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3733 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3738 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3744 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3747 act on files that don't exist.
3748 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3749 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3750 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3752 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3753 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3754 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3755 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3765 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3771 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3774 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3778 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3781 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3783 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3784 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3785 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3789 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3792 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3793 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3794 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3795 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3796 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3797 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3798 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3800 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3802 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3806 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3813 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3819 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3825 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3828 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3832 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3838 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3844 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3847 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3848 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3849 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3850 I made some changes, though:
3851 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3852 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3853 that is a clear violation of policy.
3854 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3855 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3856 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3857 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3858 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3859 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3860 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3861 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3862 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3864 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3868 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3874 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3877 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3881 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3884 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3885 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3890 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3896 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3903 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3906 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3907 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3908 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3909 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3910 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3911 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3912 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3916 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3922 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3926 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3927 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3931 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3937 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3940 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3944 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3947 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3948 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3952 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3954 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3959 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3963 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3967 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3970 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3971 for the dependancies to be generated.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3975 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3978 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3985 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3986 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3987 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3992 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3995 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3996 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4000 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4006 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4015 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4019 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4025 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4028 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4029 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4030 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4031 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4032 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4033 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4034 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4035 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4036 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4037 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4038 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4039 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4043 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4046 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4047 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4049 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4050 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4051 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4052 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4053 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4054 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4056 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4057 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4061 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4064 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4068 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4075 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4078 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4083 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4086 for building debhelper.
4087 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4098 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4101 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4105 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4108 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4109 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4110 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4111 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4112 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4113 it's always available.
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4117 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4120 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4121 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4122 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4126 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4129 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4130 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4134 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4140 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4143 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4147 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4156 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4157 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4158 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4162 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4165 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4173 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4174 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4176 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4177 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4196 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4203 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4204 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4206 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4213 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4214 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4215 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4222 things if CDPATH is set.
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4235 seems to make sense for the transition.
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4239 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4242 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4247 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4250 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4251 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4258 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4265 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4266 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4267 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4268 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4272 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4281 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4282 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4283 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4284 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4285 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4286 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4287 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4288 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4289 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4290 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4295 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4298 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4299 * README: mention doc/v2
4300 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4301 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4305 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4307 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4308 be using this script RSN.
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4312 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4315 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4316 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4317 more than 1 init script.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4321 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4324 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4328 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * Changed perl version detection.
4331 * Changed call to find.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4335 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4338 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4340 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4345 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * Really include dh_installpam.
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4351 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4354 * Wrote man page for same.
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4358 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4361 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4362 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4367 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4374 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4377 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4378 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4379 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4380 x bit was being set!
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4384 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4387 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4388 well. (Closes: 38900)
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4392 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4395 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4396 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4400 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4406 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4413 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4419 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4422 help from Julian Gilbey.
4423 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4424 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4425 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4426 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4427 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4428 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4429 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4434 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4440 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4447 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4453 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4459 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4462 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4466 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4469 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4473 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4476 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4480 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4486 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4489 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4493 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4499 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4505 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4508 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4509 may be deleted. (#35845)
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4513 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * Various man page enhancements.
4516 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4521 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4524 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4525 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4529 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4532 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4533 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4534 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4536 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4537 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4542 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4548 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * Another very minor typo fix.
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4554 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Very minor typo fix.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4560 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4563 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4564 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4568 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4574 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4577 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4578 variables properly (#34850).
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4582 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4588 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4591 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4592 (automatically generated by build process).
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4596 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4598 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4602 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4605 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4606 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4608 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4612 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4615 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4619 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * README: minor typo fix.
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4625 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4628 leave it at that. :-)
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4632 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4638 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4644 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4647 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4648 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4649 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4653 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4656 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4660 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4663 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4667 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4670 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4671 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4672 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4673 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4677 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4680 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4681 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4682 Craig Small for spotting this.
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4686 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4689 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4690 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4694 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4700 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4703 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4707 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4709 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4710 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4711 working on the last version of debhelper.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4715 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4718 being made. (#23255)
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4722 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4728 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4731 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4735 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4738 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4739 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4740 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4741 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4745 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4748 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4749 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4750 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4751 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4753 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4754 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4756 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4761 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4767 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4773 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4776 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4777 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4778 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4779 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4780 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4781 suidregister actually supports it.
4782 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4783 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4787 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4794 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4797 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4798 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4799 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4800 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4801 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4802 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4803 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4807 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4809 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4810 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4814 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4817 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4818 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4819 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4820 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4824 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4827 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4829 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4830 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4831 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4832 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4833 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4834 effect, either. (#30118)
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4838 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4844 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4847 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4848 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4852 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4858 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4861 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4862 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4863 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4864 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4868 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4871 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4872 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4876 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4882 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4885 packages, painlessly.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4889 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4895 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4901 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4907 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * The perl conversion is complete.
4911 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4913 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4914 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4915 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4920 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4923 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4924 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4925 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4929 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4932 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4934 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4936 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4937 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4941 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4944 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4945 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4949 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4955 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4958 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4959 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4960 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4961 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4962 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4966 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4969 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4970 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4971 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4972 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4976 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4979 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4983 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4986 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4987 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4988 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4989 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4990 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4991 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4992 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4993 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4997 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5003 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5006 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5007 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5008 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5013 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5016 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5020 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5023 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5027 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5030 sections of shared libraries.
5031 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5032 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5033 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5034 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5035 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5036 things you don't want them to.
5037 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5038 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5042 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5045 shared libraries. (#26414)
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5049 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5051 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5052 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5053 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5054 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5058 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5062 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5064 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5065 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5066 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5067 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5068 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5072 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5075 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5079 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5082 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5083 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5088 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5091 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5095 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5098 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5099 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5100 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5101 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5102 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5104 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5105 remove debian/files properly.
5106 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5107 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5108 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5109 * Removed bogus menu file.
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5113 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5116 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5120 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5123 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5124 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5125 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5126 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5127 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5128 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5132 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5135 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5136 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5137 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5138 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5142 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5149 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5152 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5153 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5155 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5156 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5157 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5158 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5159 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5160 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5167 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5168 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5169 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5170 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5171 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5172 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5173 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5174 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5175 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5176 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5177 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5178 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5179 passed any switches.
5180 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5184 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5187 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5188 at all for a long while.
5189 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5190 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5191 large chunks in the process.
5192 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5193 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5194 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5199 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5202 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5204 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5209 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5212 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5213 that don't always have the same files in them.
5214 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5215 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5216 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5220 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5224 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5225 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5226 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5227 updating 27 man pages.
5228 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5229 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5230 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5231 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5232 programs act on. (#25247)
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5236 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5240 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5241 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5242 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5243 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5244 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5245 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5250 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5257 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5264 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5267 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5271 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5277 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5280 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5281 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5282 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5283 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5284 package by accident.
5285 * Is version 1.0 next?
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5289 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5292 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5293 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5297 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5300 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5301 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5302 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5303 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5304 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5306 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5311 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5314 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5315 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5319 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5322 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5326 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5329 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5330 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5335 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5341 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5344 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5345 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5350 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5356 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5359 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5360 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5361 past week. Thanks, guys!
5363 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5364 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5365 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5366 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5367 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5368 would do in the same situation.
5369 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5370 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5372 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5374 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5375 permissions changed.
5376 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5377 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5378 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5379 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5380 files are treated identically.
5381 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5382 * Minor man page fixes.
5383 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5384 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5385 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5389 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5392 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5393 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5394 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5395 use -X multiple times, too.
5396 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5397 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5401 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5404 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5405 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5409 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5412 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5416 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5419 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5420 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5421 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5422 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5423 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5424 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5425 shape if you're starting a new package.
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5429 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5432 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5436 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5439 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5440 because of missing symlinks.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5444 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5450 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5453 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5454 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5455 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5456 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5457 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5459 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5460 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5464 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5466 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5467 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5468 to be changed after the fact :-)
5469 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5473 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5475 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5476 no version string after the -V.
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5480 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5482 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5483 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5488 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5491 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5495 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5498 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5499 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5500 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5501 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5502 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5503 I always welcome corrections!
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5507 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5513 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5516 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5517 * Documented this new switch.
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5521 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5524 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5525 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5526 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5527 no packages use the old behavior.
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5531 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5534 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5535 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5539 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5542 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5546 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5552 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5555 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5559 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5562 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5563 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5564 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5568 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5574 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5577 into the source package by accident.
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5581 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5584 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5585 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5586 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5587 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5588 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5589 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5594 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5598 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5599 inspired to implement some of it.
5600 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5604 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5607 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5611 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5614 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5615 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5619 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5622 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5623 have done.) (#17598)
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5627 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5633 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5639 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5642 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5646 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5649 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5650 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5654 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5657 argument processor in perl.
5658 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5659 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5660 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5661 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5665 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5668 type directories. (#16933)
5669 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5670 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5671 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5672 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5673 are supported. (#16935)
5674 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5679 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5682 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5686 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5690 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5691 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5692 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5693 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5694 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5695 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5699 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5702 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5703 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5705 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5706 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5707 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5708 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5709 a given package, or -i or -a.
5710 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5711 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5712 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5713 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5714 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5715 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5716 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5717 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5718 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5720 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5721 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5722 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5726 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5729 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5730 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5735 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5738 does not have a section.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5742 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5745 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5746 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5747 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5751 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * Fixed typo #16215.
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5757 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5760 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5761 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5762 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5763 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5764 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5769 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5772 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5773 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5774 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5779 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5781 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5785 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5791 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5794 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5795 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5796 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5797 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5798 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5799 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5803 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5809 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5812 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5816 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5819 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5820 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5821 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5825 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5828 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5832 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5834 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5838 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5841 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5845 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5848 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5852 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5858 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5861 postinst, postrm, etc.
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5865 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5871 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5874 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5875 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5876 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5877 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5878 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5882 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5885 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5886 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5890 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5893 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5897 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5900 installing package files into.
5901 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5906 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5910 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5914 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5920 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5923 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5927 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5930 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5931 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5932 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5933 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5937 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5939 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5940 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5941 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5942 multiple binary packages.
5943 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5944 should rebuild them with this version.
5945 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5949 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5952 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5956 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5959 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5963 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5966 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5967 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5968 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5969 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5970 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5971 debian/README.debian.
5972 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5973 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5974 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5975 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5976 in a few situations.)
5978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5980 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5982 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5986 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5992 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5995 * Fixed several man pages.
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5999 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6002 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6003 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6007 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6009 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6010 is ready for general use.
6011 * Added man pages for all commands.
6012 * Multiple binary package support.
6013 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6014 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6015 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6017 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6018 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6019 auto-installed as parameters.
6020 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6022 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6025 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6026 the package build directory it is to act on.
6027 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6028 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6029 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6033 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6035 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6036 ready to replace debstd.
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400