1 debhelper (7.9.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
4 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
5 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
6 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
7 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
8 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
9 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
10 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
11 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
12 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
13 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
14 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
15 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
16 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
17 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
18 (genesis) still uses them.
19 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
20 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
21 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
22 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
23 commands. (See #570039)
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 May 2010 20:01:19 -0400
27 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
31 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
32 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
33 in control file or debhelper config files.
34 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
38 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
41 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
42 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
46 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
49 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
53 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
56 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
57 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
61 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Updated French translation.
64 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
65 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
66 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
67 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
69 * Typo. Closes: #571968
70 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
71 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
72 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
73 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
74 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
75 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
76 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
77 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
78 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
80 * dh: Improve documentation.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
84 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
86 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
87 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
88 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
92 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
95 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
99 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
102 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
106 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
109 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
110 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
111 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
112 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
113 options that they do not support.
114 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
115 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
116 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
117 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
118 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
119 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
124 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
128 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
129 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
130 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
131 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
132 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
133 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
134 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
135 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
136 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
140 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
143 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
144 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
145 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
146 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
150 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Typo. Closes: #558654
153 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
154 installed. Closes: #558782
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
158 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
161 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
162 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
163 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
164 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
165 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
169 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
171 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
172 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
173 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
174 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
178 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
181 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
182 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
186 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
188 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
192 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
194 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
195 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
196 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
197 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
198 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
199 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
200 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
201 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
202 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
203 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
204 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
205 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
206 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
207 time soon.) Closes: #554509
208 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
210 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
211 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
212 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
213 document id. Closes: #555677
214 * Typo. Closes: #555659
215 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
216 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
217 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
218 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
220 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
221 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
222 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
227 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
230 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
231 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
232 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
233 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
234 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
235 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
236 translation (#494300 part 2)
239 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
241 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
242 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
243 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
244 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
245 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
249 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
252 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
253 (It was only run once due to logging.)
254 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
255 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
256 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
257 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
258 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
259 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
260 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
261 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
262 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
263 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
267 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
271 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
274 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
275 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
279 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
281 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
282 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
283 flag with arch all/any packages.
284 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
285 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
286 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
287 situation. Closes: #540794
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
291 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
295 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
296 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
297 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
298 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
299 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
302 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
303 the default. Closes: #538201
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
308 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
312 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
313 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
314 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
315 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
316 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
318 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
319 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
320 * Above Closes: #491117
321 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
326 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
332 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
333 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
334 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
338 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
341 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
342 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
343 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
344 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
345 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
350 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
353 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
354 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
358 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
360 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
364 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
366 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
367 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
369 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
370 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
371 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
375 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
377 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
378 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
382 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
388 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
390 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
391 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
392 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
397 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
399 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
403 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
406 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
407 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
408 created by using `python' first during build and install.
410 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
415 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
417 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
421 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
423 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
424 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
428 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
430 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
434 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
436 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
440 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
442 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
443 contributed by Modestas Vainius
444 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
445 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
446 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
447 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
448 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
449 that support it. Closes: #480577
450 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
451 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
452 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
454 - Adds support for cmake.
455 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
456 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
458 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
460 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
461 that use them. The options are:
462 --sourcedir, --destdir
463 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
464 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
465 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
466 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
467 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
471 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
477 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
480 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
481 default. Closes: #537140
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
485 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
488 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
489 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
493 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
495 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
496 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
500 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
503 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
507 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
510 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
512 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
513 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
514 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
518 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
521 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
522 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
523 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
527 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
530 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
531 warning or deprecation message.
532 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
533 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
534 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
535 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
536 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
537 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
538 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
539 Closes: #534639, #357434
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
543 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
549 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
552 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
553 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
554 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
555 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
557 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
558 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
559 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
563 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
569 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
576 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
579 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
583 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
587 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
588 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
590 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
591 file support. Closes: #494914
592 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
596 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
599 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
600 parameters. Closes: #527256
601 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
602 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
603 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
607 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
611 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
612 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
613 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
617 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
620 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
621 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
622 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
626 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
629 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
630 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
632 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
633 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
634 by triggers). Closes: #521181
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
638 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
642 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
646 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
649 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
650 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
651 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
652 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
657 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
663 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
666 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
667 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
668 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
669 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
670 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
672 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
673 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
674 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
675 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
676 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
677 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
681 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
684 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
685 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
686 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
687 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
688 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
690 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
694 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
696 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
700 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
702 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
703 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
704 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
705 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
706 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
707 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
708 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
709 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
710 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
711 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
712 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
716 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
718 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
719 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
721 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
722 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
723 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
724 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
726 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
727 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
731 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
733 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
734 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
735 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
736 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
737 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
738 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
739 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
741 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
742 that uses them. Affected options are:
743 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
744 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
745 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
746 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
747 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
748 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
749 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
750 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
751 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
752 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
753 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
754 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
758 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
765 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
771 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
773 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
774 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
776 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
777 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
778 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
779 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
780 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
782 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
784 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
785 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
786 rules (see bug #509756).
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
790 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
796 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
797 * Typo. Closes: #493062
798 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
799 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
803 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
806 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
807 empty files. Closes: #490937
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
811 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
817 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
824 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
827 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
828 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
829 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
830 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
835 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
837 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
838 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
839 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
840 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
844 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
847 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
848 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
849 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
850 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
851 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
855 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
862 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
864 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
865 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
866 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
867 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
868 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
869 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
870 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
871 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
872 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
873 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
877 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
880 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
881 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
882 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
883 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
885 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
886 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
887 breaking backwards compatibility.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
891 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
894 message in perl 5.10.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
898 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
904 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Convert copyright file to new format.
907 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
911 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
914 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
918 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
921 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
922 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
923 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
924 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
925 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
926 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
927 logging by dh_listpackages.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
931 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
934 run and there are no packages of that type.
935 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
936 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
937 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
938 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
940 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
941 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
945 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
947 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
948 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
949 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
953 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
956 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
957 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
959 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
960 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
961 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
962 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
963 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
964 planned but not yet implemented.)
965 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
966 if the Makefile has such a target.
967 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
968 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
969 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
970 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
971 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
972 but not yet implemented.)
973 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
974 recommended default, especially when using dh.
975 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
976 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
977 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
979 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
981 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
982 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
984 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
985 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
986 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
991 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
994 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
995 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
999 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1001 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1002 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1003 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1007 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1013 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1019 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1022 just those installed by the program.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1026 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1029 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1030 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1034 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1037 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1038 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1039 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1040 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1044 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1047 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1048 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1052 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1055 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1056 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1060 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1063 with policy. Closes: #461392
1064 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1065 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1066 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1067 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1068 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1072 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1075 Closes: #460340, #460351
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1079 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1082 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1083 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1084 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1085 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1089 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1092 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1093 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1094 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1095 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1096 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1097 package build directory won't work.
1098 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1099 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1100 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1101 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1102 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1103 mode. Closes: #459426
1104 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1109 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1112 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1116 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1120 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1121 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1122 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1123 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1124 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1125 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1129 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1132 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1133 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1134 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1135 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1139 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1142 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1143 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1144 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1145 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1146 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1150 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1153 debian/package.triggers files.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1157 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1160 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1164 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1167 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1168 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1169 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1170 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1175 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1178 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1182 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1185 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1186 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1188 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1193 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1197 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1198 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1199 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1203 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1210 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1217 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1220 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1222 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1223 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1224 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1226 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1227 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1228 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1232 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1235 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1236 * Update urls to web page.
1237 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1238 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1239 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1240 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1244 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1247 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1248 - typo in alternatives call
1249 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1251 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1252 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1256 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1259 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1264 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1270 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1276 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1279 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1281 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1282 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1283 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1284 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1285 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1286 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1287 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1288 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1289 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1290 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1291 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1295 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1298 package install. Closes: #415717
1299 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1300 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1301 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1302 script and then remove the python files.
1303 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1304 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1305 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1306 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1307 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1308 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1309 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1310 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1311 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1312 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1313 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1314 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1315 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1319 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Correct typo in french translation
1325 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1326 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1328 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1330 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1331 Closes: #406921, #381940
1332 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1334 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1335 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1336 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1337 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1338 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1339 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1340 specified). Closes: #381851
1341 * Misc minor changes.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1345 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1352 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1353 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1357 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1363 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1364 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1367 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1368 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1370 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1371 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1372 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1373 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1377 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1380 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1383 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1387 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1393 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1399 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1400 a difficult situation.
1401 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1402 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1403 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1404 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1405 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1406 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1407 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1408 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1409 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1410 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1414 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Non-maintainer upload.
1417 * Update of dh_python
1418 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1419 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1421 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1422 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1423 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1424 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1425 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1427 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1429 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Non-maintainer upload.
1432 * Update of dh_python
1433 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1434 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1435 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1436 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1437 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1438 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1439 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1440 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1441 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1442 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1444 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1445 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1446 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1447 the not too-distant future).
1448 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1449 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1450 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1451 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1452 thus made the build fail.
1454 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1456 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Non-maintainer upload.
1459 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1461 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1463 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1466 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1467 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1468 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1469 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1470 package. Closes: #301424
1471 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1472 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1473 fonts). Closes: #372686
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1477 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1483 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1484 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1485 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1486 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1487 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1488 above, but already depends on that.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1492 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1495 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1496 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1497 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1498 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1499 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1503 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1509 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1515 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1516 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1520 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1523 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1527 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1531 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1532 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1533 new version (0.24.1).
1534 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1535 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1538 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1539 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1540 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1541 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1542 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1543 new directory on their own.
1544 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1545 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1549 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1552 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1553 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1554 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1555 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1559 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1562 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1563 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1564 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1565 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1566 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1570 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1576 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1580 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1581 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1585 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1586 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1590 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1592 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1593 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1595 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1596 ignored. Closes: #337664
1598 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1603 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1609 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1614 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1615 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1616 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1617 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1618 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1619 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1620 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1624 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1627 version. Closes: #350607
1628 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1629 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1630 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1631 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1635 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1638 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1639 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1640 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1644 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1651 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1657 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1660 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1664 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1667 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1668 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1669 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1670 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1671 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1672 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1676 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1679 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1680 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1685 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1688 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1692 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1695 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1699 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1702 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1703 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1704 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1705 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1706 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1707 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1711 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1715 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1716 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1717 link. Closes: #346405
1718 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1720 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1721 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1722 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1723 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1724 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1725 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1726 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1730 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1737 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1743 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1746 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1750 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1753 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1758 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1762 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1763 installed. Closes: #342033
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1767 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1770 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1771 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1772 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1777 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1783 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1789 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1793 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1794 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1795 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1799 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1802 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1807 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1814 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1820 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1823 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1824 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1825 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1826 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1827 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1828 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1829 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1831 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1835 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1838 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1839 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1846 in standard man dirs.
1847 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1857 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1860 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1865 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1872 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1879 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1882 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1883 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1887 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1890 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1891 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1892 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1894 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1896 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1902 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1908 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1911 mode. Closes: #324161
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1918 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1919 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1920 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1921 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1926 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1929 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1930 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1931 is necesary for sanity.
1932 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1933 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1938 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1940 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1941 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1945 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1948 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1952 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1958 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1961 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1962 released, so use at your own risk.
1963 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1964 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1966 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1967 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1968 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1969 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1970 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1971 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1972 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1973 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1974 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1975 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1976 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1977 including twice per config file line now..
1978 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1979 and simplfy the rules file.
1980 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1981 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1982 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1984 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1985 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1992 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1999 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2003 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2006 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2010 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2013 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2014 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2015 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2016 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2017 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2018 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2025 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2026 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2027 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2032 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2035 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2036 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2041 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2044 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2045 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2046 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2051 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2054 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2055 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2056 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2060 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2066 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2073 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2076 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2077 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2078 unknown. Closes: #282924
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2082 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2089 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Spanish man page updates.
2092 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2103 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2106 * dh_desktop: reindent
2107 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2108 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2112 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2118 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2120 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2126 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2130 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2133 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2134 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2138 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2144 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2150 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2157 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2160 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2164 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2167 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2168 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2169 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2170 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2171 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2172 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2174 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2175 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2176 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2177 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2178 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2179 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2180 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2181 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2182 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2183 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2184 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2185 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2186 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2187 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2188 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2189 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2193 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2203 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2207 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2210 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2217 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2221 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2224 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2228 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2234 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2240 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2246 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2249 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2250 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2251 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2255 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2258 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2262 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2265 but occasionally right and necessary.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2269 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2272 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2273 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2274 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2275 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2276 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2280 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2283 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2285 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2286 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2287 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2288 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2289 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2290 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2291 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2292 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2293 postinst scripts for udebs.
2294 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2298 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2301 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2303 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2304 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2308 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2314 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2321 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2328 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2331 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2335 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2338 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2342 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2345 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2348 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2349 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2353 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2359 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2362 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2366 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2369 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2370 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2371 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2373 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2375 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2376 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2377 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2381 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2384 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2389 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2392 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2393 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2394 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2399 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2405 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2411 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2414 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2415 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2416 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2417 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2418 associated -dbg packages.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2425 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2432 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2436 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2439 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2443 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2446 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2451 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2454 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2458 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2461 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2466 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2469 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2473 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2477 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2478 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2479 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2480 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2481 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2482 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2483 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2484 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2485 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2486 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2490 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2493 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2498 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2501 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2502 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2509 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2510 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2515 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2518 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2525 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2529 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2532 out section number. Closes: #204731
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2549 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2558 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2559 removal. Closes: #204286
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2563 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2566 renaming. Closes: #203548
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2573 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2574 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2590 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2596 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2599 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2600 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2601 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2605 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2608 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2609 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2613 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2619 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2626 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2629 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2634 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2637 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2641 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2644 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2646 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2647 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2651 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2654 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2659 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2662 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2666 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2672 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2674 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2678 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2681 it break hard links (see #188663).
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2685 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2688 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2698 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2702 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2703 debconf-mergetemplates
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2707 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2710 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2714 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2717 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2721 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2724 * Update debhelper(1).
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2728 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2731 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2732 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2733 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2734 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2735 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2739 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2742 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2743 the shell. Closes: #178524
2744 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2748 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2751 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2755 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2758 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2762 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2765 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2766 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2767 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2768 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2773 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2776 files from installation.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2780 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2783 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2784 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2788 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2791 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2795 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2798 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2802 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2808 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2814 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2818 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2819 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2821 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2825 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2828 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2829 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2830 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2831 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2835 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2838 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2842 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2845 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2846 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2850 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2854 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2859 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2865 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2869 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2870 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2871 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2879 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2880 practice. Closes: #163303
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2884 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2890 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2897 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2900 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2902 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2903 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2904 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2905 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2906 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2910 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2913 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2918 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2924 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2931 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2934 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2939 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2945 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2951 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2957 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2964 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2967 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2968 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2969 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2970 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2975 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2981 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2988 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2991 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2992 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2996 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2999 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3000 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3001 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3002 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3003 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3007 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3010 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3012 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3017 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3020 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3024 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3027 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3028 right thing. Closes: #150644
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Stupid, evil typo.
3035 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3039 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3046 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3049 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3050 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3055 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3061 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3064 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3068 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3071 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3072 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3077 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3080 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3084 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3090 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3093 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3094 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3098 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3104 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Removing perl warning message.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3110 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3113 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3114 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3115 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3116 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3117 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3118 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3119 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3120 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3124 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3130 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3137 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3140 debconf-mergetemplate.
3141 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3142 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3146 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3149 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3150 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3151 dh_install, which ...
3152 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3153 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3154 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3155 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3156 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3157 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3158 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3159 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3160 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3161 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3162 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3163 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3164 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3165 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3166 other minor changes.
3167 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3168 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3169 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3170 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3171 course there's -X ..)
3172 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3173 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3174 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3176 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3177 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3178 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3179 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3180 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3185 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3191 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3194 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3198 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3204 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3210 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3216 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3222 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3225 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3226 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3227 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3228 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3230 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3231 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3235 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3241 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3244 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3248 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3251 upset. Closes: #131322
3253 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3255 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3258 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3259 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3260 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3261 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3262 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3263 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3264 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3265 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3266 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3267 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3268 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3269 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3270 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3271 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3272 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3274 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3278 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3281 - Better indenting of generated code.
3282 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3286 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3290 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3291 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3292 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3293 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3294 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3295 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3296 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3300 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3303 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3307 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3310 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3311 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3312 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3313 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3314 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3315 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3316 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3317 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3318 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3319 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3320 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3321 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3322 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3323 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3324 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3329 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3335 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3338 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3339 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3343 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3346 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3347 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3351 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3357 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3360 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3361 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3362 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3363 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3364 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3369 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3375 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3378 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3382 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3385 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3390 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3396 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3399 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3403 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3409 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3413 Also some indentation fixes.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3417 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3420 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3421 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3422 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3423 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3424 Closes: #106514, #85520
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3428 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3434 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3440 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3446 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3452 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3458 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3461 change it in debhelper v4..
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3465 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3471 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3474 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3478 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3481 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3485 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3491 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3494 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3495 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3496 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3497 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3498 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3499 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3500 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3501 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3502 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3503 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3504 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3505 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3509 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3512 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3516 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3523 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3526 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3527 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3528 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3529 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3530 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3531 program those options go to. So, for example,
3532 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3533 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3534 something complex. Closes: #89311
3535 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3539 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3542 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3543 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3544 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3548 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3551 through loop. Closes: #98598
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3555 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Missing semi-colon.
3558 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3559 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3563 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3566 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3567 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3568 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3572 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3575 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3576 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3580 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3583 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3587 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3590 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3591 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3595 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3598 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3599 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3600 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3604 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3607 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3608 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3609 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3613 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3616 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3620 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3626 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3632 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3638 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3644 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3647 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3651 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3654 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3655 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3656 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3657 followed. Closes: #85483
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3661 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3663 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3664 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3665 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3669 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3672 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3673 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3674 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3675 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3676 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3677 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3678 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3679 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3680 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3681 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3682 Closes: #88464, #77743
3683 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3684 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3685 us to deal with that gracefully.
3686 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3688 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3689 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3690 a while, Closes: #51225
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3694 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3700 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3703 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3707 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3711 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3716 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3719 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3720 don't make packlist files.
3721 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3722 debhelper coding standards.
3723 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3724 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3728 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3731 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3735 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3738 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3739 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3740 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3741 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3742 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3743 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3744 but is mildly deprecated.
3745 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3746 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3747 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3748 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3749 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3750 switching to statoverrides..
3751 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3752 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3753 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3754 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3755 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3756 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3758 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3759 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3760 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3761 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3762 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3763 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3764 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3765 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3766 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3768 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3769 variable names, pod man pages).
3770 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3771 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3772 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3773 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3774 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3775 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3776 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3780 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3786 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3793 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3796 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3800 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3802 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3803 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3804 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3808 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3810 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3811 they were previously ignored.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3815 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3817 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3818 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3822 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3824 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3825 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3826 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3830 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3832 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3836 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3838 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3839 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3843 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3845 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3846 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3847 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3848 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3849 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3850 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3851 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3852 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3853 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3854 it is an obsolete program.
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3858 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3860 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3864 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3868 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3870 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3874 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3876 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3878 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3880 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3884 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3890 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * typo: Closes, #78567
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3896 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3902 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3908 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3911 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3912 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3913 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3914 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3915 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3919 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3922 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3927 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3930 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3931 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3932 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3933 backwards-compatibility.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3937 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3940 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3941 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3942 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3943 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3944 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3945 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3947 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3948 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3949 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3951 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3953 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3954 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3955 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3956 should now be raised to severity important..
3957 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3958 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3962 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3965 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3970 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3976 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3982 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3988 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3995 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3998 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3999 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4000 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4001 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4005 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4011 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4014 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4015 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4016 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4017 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4018 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4019 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4024 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4027 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4031 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4037 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4040 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4045 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4048 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4049 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4050 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4051 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4055 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4059 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4062 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4065 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4066 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4069 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4071 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4072 the TODO entry about it.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4083 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4086 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4087 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4094 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4095 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4096 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4097 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4107 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4114 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4117 (this appears to be logal).
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4124 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4125 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4126 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4127 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4131 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4137 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4140 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4141 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4142 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4143 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4147 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4156 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4167 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4170 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4171 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4172 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4177 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4184 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4190 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4193 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4194 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4195 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4196 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4197 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4198 notice until v2 is complete.
4199 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4200 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4201 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4202 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4203 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4204 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4206 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4207 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4208 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4209 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4229 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4233 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4240 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4243 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4244 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4245 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4246 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4251 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4254 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4255 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4256 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4264 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4265 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4272 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4276 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4279 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4293 depend on the build and install targets.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4297 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4300 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4304 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4311 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4317 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4323 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4326 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4327 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4328 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4329 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4330 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4331 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4333 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4334 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4335 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4336 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4337 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4338 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4339 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4343 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4349 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4355 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4358 right place. Closes: #55065
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4362 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4369 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4372 * Copyright date updates.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4376 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4379 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4384 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4390 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4397 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4403 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4409 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4415 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4418 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4419 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4420 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4421 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4422 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4423 bits until all files have been registered.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4427 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * dh_installmanpages:
4430 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4431 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4432 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4433 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4434 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4435 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4436 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4437 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4438 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4439 otherwise change the result at all.
4441 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4442 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4443 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4444 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4445 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4450 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4456 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4459 act on files that don't exist.
4460 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4461 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4462 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4464 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4465 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4466 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4467 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4471 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4477 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4483 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4486 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4490 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4493 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4495 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4496 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4497 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4501 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4504 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4505 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4506 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4507 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4508 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4509 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4510 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4512 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4514 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4518 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4525 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4531 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4537 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4540 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4544 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4550 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4556 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4559 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4560 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4561 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4562 I made some changes, though:
4563 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4564 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4565 that is a clear violation of policy.
4566 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4567 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4568 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4569 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4570 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4571 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4572 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4573 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4574 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4576 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4586 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4589 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4593 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4596 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4597 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4602 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4608 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4615 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4618 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4619 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4620 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4621 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4622 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4623 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4624 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4628 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4634 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4638 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4639 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4643 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4649 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4652 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4656 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4659 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4660 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4664 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4666 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4671 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4675 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4679 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4682 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4683 for the dependancies to be generated.
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4687 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4690 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4694 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4697 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4698 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4699 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4707 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4708 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4712 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4718 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4727 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4737 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4740 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4741 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4742 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4743 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4744 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4745 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4746 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4747 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4748 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4749 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4750 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4751 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4755 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4758 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4759 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4761 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4762 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4763 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4764 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4765 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4766 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4768 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4769 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4773 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4776 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4780 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4787 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4790 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4795 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4798 for building debhelper.
4799 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4803 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4810 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4813 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4817 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4820 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4821 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4822 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4823 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4824 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4825 it's always available.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4829 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4832 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4833 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4834 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4838 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4841 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4842 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4846 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4855 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4859 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4865 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4868 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4869 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4870 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4874 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4877 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4882 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4885 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4886 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4888 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4889 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4893 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4899 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4905 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4908 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4912 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4915 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4916 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4918 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4922 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4925 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4926 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4927 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4931 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4934 things if CDPATH is set.
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4938 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4944 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4947 seems to make sense for the transition.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4951 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4954 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4959 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4962 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4963 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4967 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4970 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4974 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4977 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4978 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4979 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4980 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4984 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4990 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4993 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4994 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4995 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4996 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4997 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4998 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4999 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5000 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5001 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5002 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5007 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5010 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5011 * README: mention doc/v2
5012 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5013 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5017 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5019 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5020 be using this script RSN.
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5024 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5027 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5028 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5029 more than 1 init script.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5033 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5036 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5040 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * Changed perl version detection.
5043 * Changed call to find.
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5047 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5050 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5052 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5057 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * Really include dh_installpam.
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5063 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5066 * Wrote man page for same.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5070 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5073 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5074 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5079 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5086 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5089 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5090 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5091 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5092 x bit was being set!
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5096 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5099 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5100 well. (Closes: 38900)
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5104 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5107 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5108 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5112 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5118 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5125 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5131 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5134 help from Julian Gilbey.
5135 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5136 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5137 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5138 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5139 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5140 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5141 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5146 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5152 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5159 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5165 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5171 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5174 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5178 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5181 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5185 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5188 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5192 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5198 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5201 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5205 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5211 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5217 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5220 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5221 may be deleted. (#35845)
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5225 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * Various man page enhancements.
5228 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5233 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5236 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5237 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5241 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5244 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5245 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5246 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5248 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5249 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5254 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5260 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * Another very minor typo fix.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5266 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * Very minor typo fix.
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5272 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5275 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5276 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5280 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5286 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5289 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5290 variables properly (#34850).
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5294 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5300 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5303 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5304 (automatically generated by build process).
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5308 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5310 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5314 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5317 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5318 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5320 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5324 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5327 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5331 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * README: minor typo fix.
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5337 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5340 leave it at that. :-)
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5344 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5350 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5356 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5359 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5360 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5361 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5365 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5368 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5372 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5375 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5379 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5382 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5383 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5384 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5385 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5389 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5392 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5393 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5394 Craig Small for spotting this.
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5398 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5401 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5402 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5406 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5412 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5415 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5419 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5421 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5422 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5423 working on the last version of debhelper.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5427 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5430 being made. (#23255)
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5434 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5440 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5442 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5443 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5447 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5450 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5451 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5452 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5453 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5457 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5460 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5461 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5462 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5463 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5465 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5466 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5468 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5473 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5479 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5485 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5488 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5489 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5490 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5491 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5492 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5493 suidregister actually supports it.
5494 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5495 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5499 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5506 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5509 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5510 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5511 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5512 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5513 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5514 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5515 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5519 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5521 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5522 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5526 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5529 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5530 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5531 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5532 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5536 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5539 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5541 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5542 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5543 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5544 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5545 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5546 effect, either. (#30118)
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5550 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5556 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5559 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5560 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5564 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5570 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5573 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5574 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5575 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5576 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5580 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5583 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5584 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5588 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5594 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5597 packages, painlessly.
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5601 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5607 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5613 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5619 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * The perl conversion is complete.
5623 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5625 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5626 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5627 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5632 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5635 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5636 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5637 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5641 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5644 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5646 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5648 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5649 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5653 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5655 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5656 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5657 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5661 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5667 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5670 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5671 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5672 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5673 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5674 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5678 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5681 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5682 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5683 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5684 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5688 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5690 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5691 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5695 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5698 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5699 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5700 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5701 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5702 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5703 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5704 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5705 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5709 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5715 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5718 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5719 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5720 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5725 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5728 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5732 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5735 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5739 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5742 sections of shared libraries.
5743 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5744 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5745 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5746 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5747 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5748 things you don't want them to.
5749 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5750 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5754 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5757 shared libraries. (#26414)
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5761 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5763 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5764 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5765 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5766 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5770 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5774 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5776 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5777 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5778 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5779 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5780 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5784 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5787 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5791 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5794 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5795 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5800 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5803 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5807 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5810 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5811 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5812 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5813 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5814 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5816 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5817 remove debian/files properly.
5818 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5819 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5820 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5821 * Removed bogus menu file.
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5825 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5828 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5832 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5834 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5835 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5836 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5837 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5838 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5839 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5840 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5844 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5847 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5848 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5849 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5850 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5854 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5861 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5864 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5865 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5867 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5868 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5869 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5870 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5871 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5872 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5876 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5879 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5880 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5881 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5882 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5883 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5884 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5885 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5886 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5887 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5888 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5889 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5890 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5891 passed any switches.
5892 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5896 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5899 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5900 at all for a long while.
5901 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5902 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5903 large chunks in the process.
5904 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5905 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5906 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5911 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5914 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5916 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5921 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5924 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5925 that don't always have the same files in them.
5926 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5927 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5928 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5932 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5936 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5937 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5938 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5939 updating 27 man pages.
5940 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5941 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5942 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5943 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5944 programs act on. (#25247)
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5948 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5952 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5953 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5954 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5955 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5956 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5957 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5962 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5969 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5971 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5976 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5979 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5983 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5985 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5989 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5992 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5993 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5994 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5995 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5996 package by accident.
5997 * Is version 1.0 next?
5999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6001 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6003 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6004 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6005 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6009 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6012 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6013 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6014 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6015 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6016 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6018 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6023 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6026 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6027 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6031 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6034 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6038 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6041 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6042 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6047 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6053 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6056 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6057 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6062 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6068 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6071 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6072 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6073 past week. Thanks, guys!
6075 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6076 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6077 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6078 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6079 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6080 would do in the same situation.
6081 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6082 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6084 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6086 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6087 permissions changed.
6088 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6089 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6090 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6091 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6092 files are treated identically.
6093 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6094 * Minor man page fixes.
6095 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6096 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6097 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6101 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6104 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6105 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6106 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6107 use -X multiple times, too.
6108 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6109 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6113 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6116 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6117 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6121 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6124 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6128 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6131 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6132 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6133 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6134 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6135 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6136 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6137 shape if you're starting a new package.
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6141 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6144 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6148 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6150 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6151 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6152 because of missing symlinks.
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6156 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6162 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6164 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6165 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6166 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6167 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6168 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6169 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6171 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6172 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6176 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6178 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6179 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6180 to be changed after the fact :-)
6181 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6185 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6187 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6188 no version string after the -V.
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6192 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6194 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6195 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6200 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6202 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6203 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6207 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6209 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6210 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6211 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6212 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6213 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6214 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6215 I always welcome corrections!
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6219 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6225 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6228 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6229 * Documented this new switch.
6231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6233 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6235 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6236 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6237 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6238 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6239 no packages use the old behavior.
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6243 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6246 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6247 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6251 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6253 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6254 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6258 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6260 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6264 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6266 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6267 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6271 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6273 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6274 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6275 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6276 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6280 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6282 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6286 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6289 into the source package by accident.
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6293 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6296 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6297 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6298 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6299 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6300 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6301 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6306 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6308 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6310 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6311 inspired to implement some of it.
6312 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6316 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6319 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6323 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6326 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6327 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6331 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6334 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6335 have done.) (#17598)
6337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6339 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6341 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6345 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6347 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6351 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6353 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6354 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6358 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6360 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6361 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6362 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6366 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6368 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6369 argument processor in perl.
6370 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6371 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6372 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6373 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6377 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6379 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6380 type directories. (#16933)
6381 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6382 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6383 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6384 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6385 are supported. (#16935)
6386 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6391 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6394 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6398 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6400 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6402 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6403 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6404 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6405 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6406 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6407 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6411 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6414 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6415 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6417 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6418 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6419 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6420 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6421 a given package, or -i or -a.
6422 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6423 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6424 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6425 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6426 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6427 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6428 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6429 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6430 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6432 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6433 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6434 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6438 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6440 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6441 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6442 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6447 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6450 does not have a section.
6452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6454 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6456 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6457 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6458 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6459 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6463 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * Fixed typo #16215.
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6469 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6471 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6472 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6473 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6474 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6475 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6476 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6481 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6483 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6484 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6485 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6486 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6491 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6493 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6497 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6499 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6503 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6505 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6506 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6507 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6508 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6509 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6510 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6511 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6515 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6517 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6521 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6523 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6524 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6528 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6530 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6531 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6532 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6533 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6537 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6539 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6540 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6544 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6546 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6550 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6552 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6553 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6557 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6559 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6560 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6564 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6566 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6570 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6572 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6573 postinst, postrm, etc.
6575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6577 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6579 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6583 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6585 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6586 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6587 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6588 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6589 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6590 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6594 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6596 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6597 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6598 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6602 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6605 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6609 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6611 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6612 installing package files into.
6613 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6618 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6620 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6622 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6626 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6628 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6632 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6634 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6635 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6639 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6641 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6642 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6643 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6644 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6645 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6649 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6651 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6652 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6653 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6654 multiple binary packages.
6655 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6656 should rebuild them with this version.
6657 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6661 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6663 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6664 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6668 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6670 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6671 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6675 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6677 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6678 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6679 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6680 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6681 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6682 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6683 debian/README.debian.
6684 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6685 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6686 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6687 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6688 in a few situations.)
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6692 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6694 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6698 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6700 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6704 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6706 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6707 * Fixed several man pages.
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6711 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6714 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6715 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6719 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6721 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6722 is ready for general use.
6723 * Added man pages for all commands.
6724 * Multiple binary package support.
6725 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6726 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6727 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6729 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6730 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6731 auto-installed as parameters.
6732 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6734 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6737 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6738 the package build directory it is to act on.
6739 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6740 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6741 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6745 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6747 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6748 ready to replace debstd.
6750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400