1 debhelper (7.4.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
5 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
6 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:23:25 -0500
10 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
13 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
14 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
15 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
16 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
20 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Typo. Closes: #558654
23 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
24 installed. Closes: #558782
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
28 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
31 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
32 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
33 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
34 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
35 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
39 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
41 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
42 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
43 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
44 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
48 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
51 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
52 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
56 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
58 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
62 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
64 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
65 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
66 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
67 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
68 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
69 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
70 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
71 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
72 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
73 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
74 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
75 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
76 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
77 time soon.) Closes: #554509
78 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
80 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
81 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
82 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
83 document id. Closes: #555677
84 * Typo. Closes: #555659
85 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
86 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
87 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
88 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
90 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
91 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
92 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
97 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
100 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
101 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
102 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
103 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
104 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
105 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
106 translation (#494300 part 2)
109 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
111 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
112 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
113 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
114 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
115 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
119 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
121 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
122 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
123 (It was only run once due to logging.)
124 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
125 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
126 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
127 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
128 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
129 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
130 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
131 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
132 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
133 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
137 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
141 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
144 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
145 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
149 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
152 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
153 flag with arch all/any packages.
154 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
155 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
156 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
157 situation. Closes: #540794
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
161 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
165 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
166 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
167 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
168 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
169 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
172 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
173 the default. Closes: #538201
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
178 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
182 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
183 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
184 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
185 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
186 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
188 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
189 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
190 * Above Closes: #491117
191 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
196 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
202 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
203 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
204 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
208 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
211 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
212 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
213 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
214 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
215 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
220 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
223 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
224 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
228 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
230 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
234 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
236 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
237 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
239 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
240 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
241 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
245 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
247 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
248 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
252 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
258 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
260 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
261 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
262 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
267 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
269 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
273 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
276 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
277 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
278 created by using `python' first during build and install.
280 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
285 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
287 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
291 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
293 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
294 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
298 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
300 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
304 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
306 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
310 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
312 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
313 contributed by Modestas Vainius
314 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
315 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
316 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
317 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
318 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
319 that support it. Closes: #480577
320 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
321 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
322 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
324 - Adds support for cmake.
325 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
326 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
328 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
330 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
331 that use them. The options are:
332 --sourcedir, --destdir
333 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
334 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
335 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
336 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
337 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
341 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
347 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
350 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
351 default. Closes: #537140
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
355 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
358 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
359 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
363 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
366 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
370 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
373 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
377 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
380 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
382 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
383 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
384 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
388 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
391 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
392 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
393 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
397 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
400 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
401 warning or deprecation message.
402 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
403 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
404 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
405 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
406 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
407 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
408 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
409 Closes: #534639, #357434
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
413 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
419 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
422 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
423 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
424 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
425 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
427 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
428 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
429 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
433 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
439 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
446 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
449 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
453 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
457 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
458 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
460 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
461 file support. Closes: #494914
462 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
466 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
469 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
470 parameters. Closes: #527256
471 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
472 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
473 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
477 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
481 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
482 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
483 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
487 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
490 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
491 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
492 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
496 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
499 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
500 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
502 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
503 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
504 by triggers). Closes: #521181
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
508 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
512 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
516 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
518 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
519 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
520 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
521 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
522 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
527 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
533 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
536 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
537 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
538 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
539 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
540 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
542 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
543 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
544 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
545 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
546 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
547 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
551 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
554 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
555 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
556 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
557 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
558 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
560 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
564 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
566 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
570 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
572 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
573 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
574 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
575 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
576 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
577 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
578 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
579 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
580 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
581 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
582 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
586 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
588 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
589 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
591 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
592 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
593 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
594 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
596 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
597 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
601 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
603 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
604 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
605 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
606 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
607 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
608 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
609 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
611 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
612 that uses them. Affected options are:
613 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
614 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
615 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
616 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
617 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
618 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
619 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
620 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
621 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
622 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
623 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
624 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
628 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
635 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
641 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
643 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
644 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
646 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
647 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
648 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
649 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
650 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
652 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
654 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
655 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
656 rules (see bug #509756).
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
660 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
666 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
667 * Typo. Closes: #493062
668 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
669 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
673 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
676 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
677 empty files. Closes: #490937
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
681 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
687 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
694 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
697 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
698 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
699 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
700 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
705 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
707 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
708 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
709 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
710 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
714 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
717 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
718 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
719 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
720 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
721 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
725 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
732 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
734 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
735 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
736 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
737 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
738 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
739 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
740 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
741 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
742 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
743 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
747 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
750 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
751 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
752 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
753 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
755 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
756 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
757 breaking backwards compatibility.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
761 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
764 message in perl 5.10.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
768 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
774 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
776 * Convert copyright file to new format.
777 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
781 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
784 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
788 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
791 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
792 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
793 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
794 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
795 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
796 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
797 logging by dh_listpackages.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
801 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
804 run and there are no packages of that type.
805 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
806 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
807 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
808 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
810 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
811 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
815 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
817 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
818 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
819 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
823 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
826 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
827 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
829 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
830 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
831 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
832 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
833 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
834 planned but not yet implemented.)
835 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
836 if the Makefile has such a target.
837 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
838 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
839 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
840 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
841 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
842 but not yet implemented.)
843 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
844 recommended default, especially when using dh.
845 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
846 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
847 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
849 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
851 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
852 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
854 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
855 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
856 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
861 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
864 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
865 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
869 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
871 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
872 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
873 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
877 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
883 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
889 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
892 just those installed by the program.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
896 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
899 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
900 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
904 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
907 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
908 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
909 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
910 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
914 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
917 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
918 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
922 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
925 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
926 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
930 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
933 with policy. Closes: #461392
934 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
935 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
936 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
937 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
938 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
942 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
945 Closes: #460340, #460351
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
949 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
952 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
953 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
954 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
955 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
959 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
962 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
963 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
964 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
965 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
966 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
967 package build directory won't work.
968 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
969 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
970 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
971 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
972 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
973 mode. Closes: #459426
974 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
979 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
982 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
986 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
990 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
991 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
992 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
993 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
994 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
995 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
999 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1002 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1003 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1004 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1005 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1009 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1012 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1013 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1014 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1015 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1016 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1020 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1023 debian/package.triggers files.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1027 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1030 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1034 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1037 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1038 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1039 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1040 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1045 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1048 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1052 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1055 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1056 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1058 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1063 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1067 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1068 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1069 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1073 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1080 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1087 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1090 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1092 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1093 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1094 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1096 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1097 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1098 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1102 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1105 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1106 * Update urls to web page.
1107 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1108 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1109 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1110 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1114 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1117 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1118 - typo in alternatives call
1119 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1121 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1122 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1126 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1129 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1134 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1140 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1146 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1149 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1151 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1152 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1153 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1154 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1155 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1156 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1157 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1158 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1159 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1160 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1161 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1165 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1168 package install. Closes: #415717
1169 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1170 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1171 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1172 script and then remove the python files.
1173 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1174 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1175 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1176 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1177 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1178 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1179 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1180 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1181 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1182 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1183 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1184 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1185 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1189 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Correct typo in french translation
1195 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1196 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1198 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1200 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1201 Closes: #406921, #381940
1202 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1204 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1205 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1206 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1207 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1208 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1209 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1210 specified). Closes: #381851
1211 * Misc minor changes.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1215 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1222 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1223 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1227 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1233 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1234 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1237 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1238 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1240 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1241 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1242 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1243 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1247 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1250 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1253 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1257 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1263 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1269 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1270 a difficult situation.
1271 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1272 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1273 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1274 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1275 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1276 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1277 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1278 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1279 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1280 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1284 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Non-maintainer upload.
1287 * Update of dh_python
1288 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1289 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1291 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1292 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1293 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1294 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1295 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1297 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1299 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Non-maintainer upload.
1302 * Update of dh_python
1303 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1304 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1305 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1306 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1307 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1308 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1309 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1310 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1311 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1312 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1314 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1315 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1316 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1317 the not too-distant future).
1318 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1319 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1320 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1321 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1322 thus made the build fail.
1324 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1326 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Non-maintainer upload.
1329 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1331 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1333 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1336 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1337 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1338 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1339 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1340 package. Closes: #301424
1341 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1342 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1343 fonts). Closes: #372686
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1347 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1353 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1354 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1355 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1356 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1357 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1358 above, but already depends on that.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1362 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1365 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1366 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1367 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1368 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1369 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1373 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1379 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1385 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1386 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1390 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1393 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1397 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1401 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1402 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1403 new version (0.24.1).
1404 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1405 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1408 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1409 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1410 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1411 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1412 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1413 new directory on their own.
1414 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1415 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1419 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1422 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1423 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1424 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1425 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1429 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1432 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1433 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1434 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1435 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1436 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1440 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1446 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1450 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1451 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1455 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1456 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1460 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1462 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1463 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1465 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1466 ignored. Closes: #337664
1468 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1473 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1479 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1484 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1485 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1486 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1487 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1488 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1489 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1490 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1494 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1497 version. Closes: #350607
1498 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1499 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1500 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1501 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1505 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1508 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1509 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1510 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1514 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1521 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1527 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1530 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1534 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1537 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1538 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1539 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1540 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1541 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1542 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1546 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1549 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1550 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1555 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1558 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1562 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1565 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1569 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1572 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1573 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1574 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1575 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1576 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1577 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1581 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1585 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1586 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1587 link. Closes: #346405
1588 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1590 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1591 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1592 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1593 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1594 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1595 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1596 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1600 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1607 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1613 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1616 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1620 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1623 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1628 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1632 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1633 installed. Closes: #342033
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1637 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1640 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1641 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1642 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1647 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1653 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1659 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1663 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1664 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1665 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1669 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1672 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1677 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1684 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1690 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1693 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1694 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1695 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1696 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1697 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1698 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1699 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1701 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1705 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1708 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1709 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1713 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1716 in standard man dirs.
1717 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1721 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1727 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1730 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1735 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1742 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1749 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1752 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1753 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1757 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1760 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1761 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1762 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1764 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1766 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1772 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1778 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1781 mode. Closes: #324161
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1785 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1788 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1789 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1790 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1791 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1796 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1799 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1800 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1801 is necesary for sanity.
1802 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1803 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1808 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1810 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1811 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1815 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1818 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1822 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1828 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1831 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1832 released, so use at your own risk.
1833 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1834 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1836 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1837 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1838 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1839 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1840 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1841 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1842 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1843 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1844 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1845 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1846 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1847 including twice per config file line now..
1848 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1849 and simplfy the rules file.
1850 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1851 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1852 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1854 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1855 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1859 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1862 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1866 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1869 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1873 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1876 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1880 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1883 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1884 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1885 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1886 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1887 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1888 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1895 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1896 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1897 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1902 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1905 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1906 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1911 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1914 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1915 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1916 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1921 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1924 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1925 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1926 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1930 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1936 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1943 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1946 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1947 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1948 unknown. Closes: #282924
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1952 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1959 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Spanish man page updates.
1962 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1976 * dh_desktop: reindent
1977 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1978 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1982 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1988 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1990 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1994 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1996 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2000 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2003 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2004 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2008 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2030 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2034 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2037 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2038 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2039 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2040 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2041 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2042 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2044 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2045 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2046 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2047 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2048 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2049 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2050 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2051 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2052 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2053 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2054 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2055 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2056 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2057 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2058 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2059 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2063 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2070 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2073 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2077 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2080 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2084 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2087 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2091 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2094 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2098 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2104 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2110 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2116 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2119 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2120 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2121 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2125 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2128 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2132 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2135 but occasionally right and necessary.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2139 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2142 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2143 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2144 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2145 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2146 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2150 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2153 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2155 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2156 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2157 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2158 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2159 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2160 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2161 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2162 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2163 postinst scripts for udebs.
2164 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2168 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2171 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2173 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2174 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2178 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2184 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2191 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2198 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2201 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2205 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2208 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2212 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2215 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2218 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2219 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2223 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2229 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2232 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2236 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2239 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2240 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2241 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2243 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2245 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2246 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2247 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2251 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2254 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2259 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2262 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2263 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2264 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2269 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2275 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2281 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2284 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2285 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2286 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2287 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2288 associated -dbg packages.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2295 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2302 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2306 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2309 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2313 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2316 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2321 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2324 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2331 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2339 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2347 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2348 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2349 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2350 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2351 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2352 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2353 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2354 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2355 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2356 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2360 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2363 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2371 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2372 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2379 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2380 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2388 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2392 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2395 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2402 out section number. Closes: #204731
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2419 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2425 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2428 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2429 removal. Closes: #204286
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2433 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2436 renaming. Closes: #203548
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2440 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2443 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2444 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2454 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2460 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2466 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2469 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2470 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2471 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2478 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2479 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2483 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2489 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2496 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2499 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2504 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2507 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2511 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2514 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2516 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2517 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2521 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2524 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2529 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2532 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2542 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2544 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2548 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2551 it break hard links (see #188663).
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2558 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2568 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2572 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2573 debconf-mergetemplates
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2577 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2580 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2584 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2587 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2591 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2594 * Update debhelper(1).
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2598 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2601 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2602 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2603 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2604 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2605 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2609 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2612 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2613 the shell. Closes: #178524
2614 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2618 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2621 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2625 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2628 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2632 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2635 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2636 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2637 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2638 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2643 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2646 files from installation.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2650 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2653 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2654 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2658 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2661 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2665 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2668 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2672 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2678 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2684 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2688 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2689 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2691 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2695 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2698 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2699 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2700 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2701 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2705 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2708 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2712 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2715 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2716 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2720 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2724 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2729 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2735 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2739 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2740 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2741 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2746 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2749 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2750 practice. Closes: #163303
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2754 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2760 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2767 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2770 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2772 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2773 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2774 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2775 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2776 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2780 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2783 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2788 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2794 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2801 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2804 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2809 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2815 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2821 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2834 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2837 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2838 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2839 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2840 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2845 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2851 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2858 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2861 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2862 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2866 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2869 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2870 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2871 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2872 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2873 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2877 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2880 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2882 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2887 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2890 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2894 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2897 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2898 right thing. Closes: #150644
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2902 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Stupid, evil typo.
2905 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2909 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2916 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2919 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2920 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2931 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2934 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2938 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2941 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2942 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2947 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2950 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2954 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2960 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2963 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2964 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2968 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2974 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * Removing perl warning message.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2980 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2983 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2984 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2985 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2986 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2987 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2988 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2989 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2990 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2994 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3000 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3007 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3010 debconf-mergetemplate.
3011 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3012 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3016 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3019 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3020 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3021 dh_install, which ...
3022 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3023 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3024 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3025 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3026 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3027 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3028 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3029 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3030 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3031 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3032 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3033 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3034 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3035 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3036 other minor changes.
3037 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3038 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3039 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3040 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3041 course there's -X ..)
3042 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3043 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3044 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3046 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3047 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3048 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3049 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3050 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3055 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3061 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3064 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3068 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3074 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3080 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3086 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3092 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3095 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3096 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3097 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3098 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3100 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3101 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3105 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3111 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3114 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3118 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3121 upset. Closes: #131322
3123 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3125 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3128 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3129 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3130 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3131 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3132 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3133 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3134 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3135 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3136 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3137 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3138 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3139 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3140 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3141 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3142 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3144 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3148 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3151 - Better indenting of generated code.
3152 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3156 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3160 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3161 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3162 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3163 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3164 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3165 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3166 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3170 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3173 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3177 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3180 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3181 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3182 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3183 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3184 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3185 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3186 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3187 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3188 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3189 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3190 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3191 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3192 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3193 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3194 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3199 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3205 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3208 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3209 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3213 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3216 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3217 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3221 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3227 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3230 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3231 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3232 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3233 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3234 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3239 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3245 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3248 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3252 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3255 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3260 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3266 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3269 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3273 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3279 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3283 Also some indentation fixes.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3287 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3290 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3291 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3292 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3293 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3294 Closes: #106514, #85520
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3298 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3304 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3310 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3316 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3322 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3328 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3331 change it in debhelper v4..
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3335 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3341 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3344 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3348 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3351 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3355 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3361 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3364 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3365 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3366 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3367 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3368 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3369 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3370 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3371 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3372 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3373 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3374 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3375 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3379 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3382 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3386 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3393 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3396 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3397 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3398 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3399 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3400 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3401 program those options go to. So, for example,
3402 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3403 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3404 something complex. Closes: #89311
3405 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3409 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3412 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3413 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3414 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3418 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3421 through loop. Closes: #98598
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3425 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Missing semi-colon.
3428 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3429 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3433 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3436 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3437 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3438 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3442 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3445 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3446 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3450 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3453 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3457 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3460 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3461 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3465 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3468 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3469 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3470 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3474 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3477 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3478 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3479 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3483 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3486 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3490 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3496 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3502 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3508 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3514 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3517 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3521 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3524 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3525 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3526 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3527 followed. Closes: #85483
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3531 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3533 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3534 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3535 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3539 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3542 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3543 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3544 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3545 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3546 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3547 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3548 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3549 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3550 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3551 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3552 Closes: #88464, #77743
3553 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3554 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3555 us to deal with that gracefully.
3556 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3558 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3559 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3560 a while, Closes: #51225
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3564 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3570 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3573 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3577 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3581 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3586 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3589 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3590 don't make packlist files.
3591 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3592 debhelper coding standards.
3593 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3594 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3598 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3601 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3605 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3608 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3609 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3610 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3611 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3612 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3613 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3614 but is mildly deprecated.
3615 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3616 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3617 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3618 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3619 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3620 switching to statoverrides..
3621 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3622 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3623 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3624 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3625 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3626 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3628 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3629 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3630 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3631 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3632 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3633 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3634 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3635 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3636 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3638 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3639 variable names, pod man pages).
3640 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3641 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3642 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3643 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3644 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3645 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3646 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3650 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3656 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3663 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3666 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3670 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3672 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3673 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3674 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3678 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3680 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3681 they were previously ignored.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3685 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3687 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3688 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3692 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3694 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3695 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3696 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3700 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3702 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3706 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3708 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3709 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3713 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3715 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3716 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3717 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3718 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3719 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3720 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3721 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3722 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3723 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3724 it is an obsolete program.
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3728 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3730 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3734 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3738 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3740 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3744 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3746 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3748 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3750 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3754 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3760 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * typo: Closes, #78567
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3766 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3772 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3778 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3781 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3782 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3783 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3784 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3785 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3789 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3792 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3797 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3800 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3801 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3802 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3803 backwards-compatibility.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3807 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3810 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3811 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3812 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3813 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3814 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3815 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3817 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3818 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3819 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3821 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3823 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3824 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3825 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3826 should now be raised to severity important..
3827 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3828 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3832 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3835 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3840 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3846 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3852 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3858 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3865 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3868 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3869 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3870 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3871 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3875 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3881 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3884 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3885 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3886 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3887 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3888 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3889 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3894 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3897 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3901 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3907 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3910 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3915 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3918 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3919 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3920 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3921 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3925 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3929 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3932 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3935 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3936 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3939 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3941 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3942 the TODO entry about it.
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3946 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3953 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3956 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3957 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3961 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3964 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3965 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3966 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3967 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3971 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3977 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3987 (this appears to be logal).
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3994 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3995 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3996 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3997 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4001 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4010 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4011 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4012 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4013 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4017 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4026 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4037 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4040 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4041 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4042 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4047 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4054 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4063 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4064 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4065 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4066 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4067 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4068 notice until v2 is complete.
4069 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4070 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4071 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4072 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4073 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4074 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4076 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4077 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4078 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4079 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4083 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4089 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4096 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4099 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4103 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4113 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4114 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4115 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4116 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4124 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4125 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4126 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4131 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4134 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4135 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4139 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4142 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4149 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4163 depend on the build and install targets.
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4167 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4170 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4174 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4187 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4193 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4196 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4197 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4198 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4199 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4200 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4201 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4203 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4204 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4205 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4206 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4207 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4208 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4209 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4213 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4219 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4225 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4228 right place. Closes: #55065
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4232 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4239 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4242 * Copyright date updates.
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4246 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4249 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4260 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4267 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4273 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4279 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4285 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4288 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4289 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4290 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4291 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4292 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4293 bits until all files have been registered.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4297 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * dh_installmanpages:
4300 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4301 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4302 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4303 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4304 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4305 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4306 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4307 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4308 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4309 otherwise change the result at all.
4311 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4312 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4313 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4314 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4315 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4320 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4326 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4329 act on files that don't exist.
4330 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4331 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4332 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4334 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4335 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4336 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4337 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4341 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4347 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4353 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4356 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4360 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4363 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4365 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4366 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4367 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4371 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4374 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4375 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4376 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4377 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4378 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4379 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4380 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4382 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4384 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4388 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4395 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4401 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4407 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4410 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4414 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4420 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4426 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4429 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4430 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4431 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4432 I made some changes, though:
4433 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4434 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4435 that is a clear violation of policy.
4436 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4437 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4438 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4439 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4440 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4441 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4442 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4443 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4444 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4446 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4450 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4456 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4459 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4463 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4466 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4467 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4472 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4478 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4485 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4488 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4489 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4490 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4491 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4492 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4493 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4494 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4498 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4504 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4508 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4509 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4513 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4519 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4522 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4526 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4529 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4530 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4536 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4541 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4545 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4549 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4552 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4553 for the dependancies to be generated.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4557 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4560 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4564 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4567 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4568 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4569 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4577 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4578 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4597 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4610 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4611 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4612 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4613 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4614 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4615 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4616 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4617 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4618 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4619 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4620 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4621 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4625 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4628 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4629 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4631 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4632 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4633 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4634 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4635 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4636 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4638 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4639 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4643 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4646 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4650 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4660 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4665 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4668 for building debhelper.
4669 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4683 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4687 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4690 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4691 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4692 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4693 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4694 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4695 it's always available.
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4699 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4702 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4703 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4704 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4708 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4711 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4712 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4716 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4722 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4725 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4735 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4738 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4739 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4740 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4744 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4747 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4752 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4755 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4756 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4758 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4759 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4763 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4778 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4785 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4786 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4788 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4792 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4795 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4796 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4797 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4801 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4804 things if CDPATH is set.
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4808 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4814 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4817 seems to make sense for the transition.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4821 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4824 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4829 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4832 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4833 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4837 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4840 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4844 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4847 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4848 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4849 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4850 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4854 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4863 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4864 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4865 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4866 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4867 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4868 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4869 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4870 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4871 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4872 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4877 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4880 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4881 * README: mention doc/v2
4882 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4883 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4887 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4889 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4890 be using this script RSN.
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4894 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4897 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4898 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4899 more than 1 init script.
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4903 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4906 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4910 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * Changed perl version detection.
4913 * Changed call to find.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4917 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4920 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4922 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4927 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * Really include dh_installpam.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4933 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4936 * Wrote man page for same.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4940 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4943 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4944 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4949 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4956 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4959 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4960 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4961 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4962 x bit was being set!
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4966 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4969 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4970 well. (Closes: 38900)
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4974 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4977 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4978 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4982 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4988 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4995 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5001 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5004 help from Julian Gilbey.
5005 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5006 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5007 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5008 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5009 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5010 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5011 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5016 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5022 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5029 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5035 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5041 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5044 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5048 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5051 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5055 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5058 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5062 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5071 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5075 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5081 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5087 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5090 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5091 may be deleted. (#35845)
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5095 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * Various man page enhancements.
5098 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5103 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5106 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5107 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5111 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5114 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5115 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5116 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5118 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5119 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5124 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5130 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * Another very minor typo fix.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5136 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * Very minor typo fix.
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5142 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5145 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5146 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5150 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5152 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5156 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5159 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5160 variables properly (#34850).
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5164 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5170 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5173 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5174 (automatically generated by build process).
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5178 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5180 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5184 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5187 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5188 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5190 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5194 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5197 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5201 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * README: minor typo fix.
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5207 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5210 leave it at that. :-)
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5214 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5220 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5226 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5229 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5230 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5231 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5235 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5238 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5242 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5245 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5249 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5252 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5253 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5254 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5255 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5259 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5262 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5263 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5264 Craig Small for spotting this.
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5268 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5271 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5272 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5276 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5282 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5285 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5289 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5291 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5292 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5293 working on the last version of debhelper.
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5297 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5300 being made. (#23255)
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5304 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5310 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5313 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5317 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5320 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5321 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5322 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5323 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5327 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5330 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5331 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5332 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5333 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5335 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5336 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5338 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5343 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5349 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5355 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5358 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5359 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5360 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5361 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5362 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5363 suidregister actually supports it.
5364 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5365 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5369 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5376 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5379 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5380 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5381 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5382 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5383 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5384 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5385 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5389 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5391 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5392 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5396 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5399 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5400 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5401 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5402 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5406 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5409 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5411 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5412 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5413 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5414 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5415 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5416 effect, either. (#30118)
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5420 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5426 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5429 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5430 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5434 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5440 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5442 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5443 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5444 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5445 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5446 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5450 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5453 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5454 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5458 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5464 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5467 packages, painlessly.
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5471 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5477 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5483 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5489 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * The perl conversion is complete.
5493 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5495 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5496 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5497 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5502 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5505 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5506 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5507 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5511 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5514 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5516 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5518 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5519 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5523 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5526 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5527 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5531 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5537 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5540 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5541 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5542 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5543 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5544 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5548 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5551 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5552 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5553 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5554 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5558 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5561 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5565 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5568 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5569 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5570 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5571 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5572 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5573 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5574 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5575 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5579 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5585 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5588 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5589 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5590 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5595 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5598 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5602 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5605 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5609 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5612 sections of shared libraries.
5613 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5614 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5615 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5616 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5617 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5618 things you don't want them to.
5619 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5620 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5624 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5627 shared libraries. (#26414)
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5631 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5633 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5634 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5635 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5636 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5640 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5644 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5646 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5647 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5648 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5649 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5650 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5654 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5657 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5661 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5664 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5665 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5670 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5673 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5677 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5680 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5681 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5682 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5683 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5684 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5686 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5687 remove debian/files properly.
5688 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5689 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5690 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5691 * Removed bogus menu file.
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5695 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5698 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5702 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5705 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5706 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5707 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5708 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5709 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5710 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5714 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5717 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5718 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5719 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5720 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5724 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5731 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5734 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5735 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5737 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5738 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5739 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5740 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5741 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5742 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5746 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5749 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5750 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5751 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5752 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5753 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5754 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5755 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5756 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5757 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5758 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5759 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5760 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5761 passed any switches.
5762 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5766 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5769 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5770 at all for a long while.
5771 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5772 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5773 large chunks in the process.
5774 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5775 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5776 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5781 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5784 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5786 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5791 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5794 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5795 that don't always have the same files in them.
5796 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5797 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5798 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5802 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5806 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5807 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5808 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5809 updating 27 man pages.
5810 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5811 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5812 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5813 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5814 programs act on. (#25247)
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5818 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5822 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5823 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5824 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5825 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5826 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5827 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5832 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5834 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5839 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5841 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5846 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5849 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5853 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5855 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5859 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5861 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5862 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5863 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5864 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5865 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5866 package by accident.
5867 * Is version 1.0 next?
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5871 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5874 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5875 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5879 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5882 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5883 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5884 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5885 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5886 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5888 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5893 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5896 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5897 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5901 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5904 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5908 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5910 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5911 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5912 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5917 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5923 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5926 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5927 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5932 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5938 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5940 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5941 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5942 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5943 past week. Thanks, guys!
5945 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5946 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5947 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5948 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5949 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5950 would do in the same situation.
5951 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5952 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5954 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5956 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5957 permissions changed.
5958 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5959 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5960 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5961 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5962 files are treated identically.
5963 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5964 * Minor man page fixes.
5965 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5966 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5967 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5971 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5974 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5975 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5976 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5977 use -X multiple times, too.
5978 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5979 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5983 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5985 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5986 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5987 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5991 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5994 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5998 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6001 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6002 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6003 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6004 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6005 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6006 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6007 shape if you're starting a new package.
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6011 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6014 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6018 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6020 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6021 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6022 because of missing symlinks.
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6026 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6032 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6035 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6036 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6037 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6038 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6039 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6041 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6042 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6046 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6048 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6049 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6050 to be changed after the fact :-)
6051 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6055 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6057 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6058 no version string after the -V.
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6062 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6064 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6065 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6070 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6072 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6073 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6077 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6079 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6080 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6081 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6082 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6083 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6084 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6085 I always welcome corrections!
6087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6089 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6091 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6095 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6098 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6099 * Documented this new switch.
6101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6103 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6105 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6106 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6107 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6108 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6109 no packages use the old behavior.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6113 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6116 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6117 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6121 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6124 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6128 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6134 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6137 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6141 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6144 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6145 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6146 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6150 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6156 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6159 into the source package by accident.
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6163 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6166 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6167 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6168 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6169 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6170 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6171 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6176 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6178 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6180 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6181 inspired to implement some of it.
6182 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6186 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6189 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6193 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6196 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6197 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6201 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6204 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6205 have done.) (#17598)
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6209 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6215 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6217 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6221 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6223 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6224 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6228 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6231 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6232 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6236 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6238 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6239 argument processor in perl.
6240 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6241 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6242 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6243 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6247 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6249 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6250 type directories. (#16933)
6251 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6252 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6253 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6254 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6255 are supported. (#16935)
6256 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6261 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6263 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6264 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6268 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6272 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6273 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6274 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6275 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6276 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6277 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6281 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6283 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6284 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6285 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6287 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6288 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6289 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6290 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6291 a given package, or -i or -a.
6292 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6293 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6294 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6295 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6296 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6297 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6298 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6299 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6300 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6302 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6303 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6304 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6308 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6310 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6311 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6312 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6317 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6319 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6320 does not have a section.
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6324 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6327 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6328 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6329 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6333 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6335 * Fixed typo #16215.
6337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6339 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6341 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6342 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6343 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6344 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6345 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6346 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6351 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6353 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6354 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6355 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6356 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6361 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6367 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6369 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6373 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6375 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6376 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6377 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6378 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6379 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6380 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6381 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6385 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6387 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6391 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6394 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6398 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6400 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6401 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6402 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6403 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6407 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6409 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6410 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6414 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6416 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6420 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6423 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6427 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6429 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6430 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6434 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6436 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6440 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6443 postinst, postrm, etc.
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6447 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6453 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6455 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6456 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6457 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6458 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6459 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6460 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6464 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6466 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6467 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6468 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6472 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6474 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6475 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6479 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6481 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6482 installing package files into.
6483 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6488 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6492 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6496 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6498 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6502 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6504 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6505 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6509 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6512 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6513 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6514 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6515 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6519 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6521 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6522 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6523 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6524 multiple binary packages.
6525 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6526 should rebuild them with this version.
6527 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6531 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6533 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6534 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6538 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6540 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6541 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6545 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6547 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6548 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6549 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6550 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6551 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6552 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6553 debian/README.debian.
6554 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6555 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6556 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6557 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6558 in a few situations.)
6560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6562 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6564 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6568 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6574 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6576 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6577 * Fixed several man pages.
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6581 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6584 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6585 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6589 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6591 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6592 is ready for general use.
6593 * Added man pages for all commands.
6594 * Multiple binary package support.
6595 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6596 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6597 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6599 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6600 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6601 auto-installed as parameters.
6602 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6604 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6607 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6608 the package build directory it is to act on.
6609 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6610 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6611 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6615 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6617 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6618 ready to replace debstd.
6620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400