1 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
4 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
5 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
6 created by using `python' first during build and install.
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:22:14 +0200
11 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
13 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
17 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
19 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
20 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
24 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
26 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
30 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
32 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
36 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
38 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
39 contributed by Modestas Vainius
40 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
41 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
42 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
43 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
44 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
45 that support it. Closes: #480577
46 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
47 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
48 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
50 - Adds support for cmake.
51 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
52 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
54 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
56 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
57 that use them. The options are:
58 --sourcedir, --destdir
59 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
60 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
61 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
62 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
63 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
67 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
73 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
76 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
77 default. Closes: #537140
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
81 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
84 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
85 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
89 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
92 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
96 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
99 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
103 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
106 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
108 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
109 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
110 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
114 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
117 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
118 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
119 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
123 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
126 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
127 warning or deprecation message.
128 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
129 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
130 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
131 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
132 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
133 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
134 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
135 Closes: #534639, #357434
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
139 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
145 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
148 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
149 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
150 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
151 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
153 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
154 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
155 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
159 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
165 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
172 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
175 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
179 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
183 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
184 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
186 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
187 file support. Closes: #494914
188 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
192 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
195 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
196 parameters. Closes: #527256
197 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
198 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
199 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
203 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
207 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
208 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
209 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
213 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
216 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
217 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
218 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
222 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
225 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
226 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
228 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
229 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
230 by triggers). Closes: #521181
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
234 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
238 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
242 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
245 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
246 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
247 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
248 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
253 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
259 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
262 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
263 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
264 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
265 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
266 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
268 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
269 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
270 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
271 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
272 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
273 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
277 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
280 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
281 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
282 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
283 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
284 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
286 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
290 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
292 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
296 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
298 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
299 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
300 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
301 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
302 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
303 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
304 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
305 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
306 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
307 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
308 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
312 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
314 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
315 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
317 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
318 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
319 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
320 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
322 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
323 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
327 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
329 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
330 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
331 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
332 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
333 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
334 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
335 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
337 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
338 that uses them. Affected options are:
339 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
340 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
341 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
342 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
343 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
344 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
345 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
346 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
347 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
348 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
349 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
350 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
354 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
361 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
367 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
369 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
370 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
372 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
373 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
374 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
375 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
376 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
378 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
380 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
381 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
382 rules (see bug #509756).
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
386 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
392 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
393 * Typo. Closes: #493062
394 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
395 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
399 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
402 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
403 empty files. Closes: #490937
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
407 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
413 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
420 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
423 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
424 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
425 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
426 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
431 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
433 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
434 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
435 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
436 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
440 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
443 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
444 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
445 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
446 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
447 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
451 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
458 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
460 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
461 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
462 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
463 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
464 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
465 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
466 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
467 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
468 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
469 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
473 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
476 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
477 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
478 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
479 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
481 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
482 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
483 breaking backwards compatability.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
487 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
490 message in perl 5.10.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
494 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
500 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Convert copyright file to new format.
503 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
507 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
510 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
514 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
517 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
518 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
519 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
520 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
521 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
522 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
523 logging by dh_listpackages.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
527 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
530 run and there are no packages of that type.
531 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
532 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
533 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
534 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
536 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
537 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
541 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
543 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
544 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
545 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
549 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
552 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
553 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
555 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
556 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
557 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
558 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
559 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
560 planned but not yet implemented.)
561 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
562 if the Makefile has such a target.
563 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
564 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
565 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
566 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
567 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
568 but not yet implemented.)
569 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
570 recommended default, especially when using dh.
571 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
572 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
573 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
575 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
577 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
578 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
580 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
581 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
582 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
587 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
590 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
591 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
595 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
597 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
598 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
599 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
603 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
609 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
615 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
618 just those installed by the program.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
622 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
625 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
626 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
630 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
633 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
634 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
635 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
636 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
640 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
643 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
644 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
648 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
651 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
652 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
656 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
659 with policy. Closes: #461392
660 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
661 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
662 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
663 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
664 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
668 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
671 Closes: #460340, #460351
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
675 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
678 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
679 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
680 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
681 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
685 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
688 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
689 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
690 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
691 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
692 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
693 package build directory won't work.
694 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
695 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
696 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
697 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
698 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
699 mode. Closes: #459426
700 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
705 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
708 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
712 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
716 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
717 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
718 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
719 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
720 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
721 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
725 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
728 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
729 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
730 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
731 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
735 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
738 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
739 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
740 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
741 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
742 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
746 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
749 debian/package.triggers files.
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
753 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
756 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
760 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
763 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
764 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
765 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
766 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
771 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
774 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
778 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
781 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
782 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
784 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
789 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
793 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
794 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
795 * Typo. Closes: #441272
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
799 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
806 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
813 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
816 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
818 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
819 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
820 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
822 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
823 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
824 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
828 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
831 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
832 * Update urls to web page.
833 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
835 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
836 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
840 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
843 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
844 - typo in alternatives call
845 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
847 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
848 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
852 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
855 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
860 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
866 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
872 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
875 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
877 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
878 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
879 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
880 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
881 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
882 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
883 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
884 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
885 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
886 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
887 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
891 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
894 package install. Closes: #415717
895 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
896 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
897 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
898 script and then remove the python files.
899 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
900 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
901 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
902 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
903 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
904 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
905 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
906 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
907 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
908 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
909 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
910 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
911 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
915 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Correct typo in french translation
921 * Typo. Closes: #400571
922 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
924 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
926 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
927 Closes: #406921, #381940
928 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
930 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
931 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
932 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
933 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
934 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
935 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
936 specified). Closes: #381851
937 * Misc minor changes.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
941 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
948 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
949 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
953 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
959 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
960 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
963 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
964 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
966 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
967 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
968 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
969 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
973 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
976 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
979 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
983 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
989 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
995 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
996 a difficult situation.
997 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
998 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
999 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1000 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1001 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1002 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1003 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1004 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1005 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1006 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1010 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Non-maintainer upload.
1013 * Update of dh_python
1014 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1015 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1017 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1018 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1019 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1020 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1021 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1023 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1025 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Non-maintainer upload.
1028 * Update of dh_python
1029 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1030 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1031 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1032 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1033 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1034 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1035 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1036 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1037 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1038 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1040 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1041 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1042 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1043 the not too-distant future).
1044 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1045 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1046 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1047 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1048 thus made the build fail.
1050 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1052 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Non-maintainer upload.
1055 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1057 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1059 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1062 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1063 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1064 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1065 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1066 package. Closes: #301424
1067 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1068 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1069 fonts). Closes: #372686
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1073 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1079 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1080 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1081 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1082 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1083 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1084 above, but already depends on that.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1088 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1091 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1092 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1093 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1094 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1095 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1099 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1105 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1111 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1112 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1116 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1119 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1123 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1127 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1128 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1129 new version (0.24.1).
1130 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1131 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1134 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1135 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1136 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1137 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1138 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1139 new directory on their own.
1140 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1141 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1145 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1148 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1149 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1150 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1151 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1155 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1158 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1159 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1160 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1161 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1162 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1166 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1172 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1176 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1177 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1181 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1182 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1186 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1188 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1189 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1191 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1192 ignored. Closes: #337664
1194 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1199 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1205 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1210 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1211 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1212 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1213 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1214 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1215 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1216 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1220 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1223 version. Closes: #350607
1224 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1225 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1226 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1227 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1231 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1234 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1235 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1236 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1240 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1247 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1253 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1256 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1260 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1263 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1264 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1265 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1266 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1267 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1268 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1272 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1275 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1276 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1281 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1284 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1288 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1291 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1295 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1298 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1299 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1300 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1301 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1302 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1303 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1307 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1311 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1312 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1313 link. Closes: #346405
1314 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1316 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1317 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1318 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1319 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1320 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1321 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1322 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1326 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1333 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1339 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1342 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1346 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1349 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1354 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1358 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1359 installed. Closes: #342033
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1363 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1366 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1367 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1368 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1373 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1379 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1385 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1389 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1390 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1391 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1395 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1398 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1403 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1410 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1416 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1419 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1420 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1421 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1422 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1423 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1424 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1425 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1427 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1431 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1434 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1435 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1439 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1442 in standard man dirs.
1443 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1447 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1453 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1456 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1461 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1468 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1475 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1478 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1479 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1483 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1486 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1487 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1488 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1490 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1492 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1498 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1504 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1507 mode. Closes: #324161
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1511 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1514 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1515 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1516 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1517 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1522 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1525 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1526 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1527 is necesary for sanity.
1528 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1529 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1534 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1536 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1537 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1541 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1544 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1548 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1554 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1557 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1558 released, so use at your own risk.
1559 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1560 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1562 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1563 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1564 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1565 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1566 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1567 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1568 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1569 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1570 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1571 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1572 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1573 including twice per config file line now..
1574 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1575 and simplfy the rules file.
1576 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1577 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1578 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1580 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1581 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1585 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1588 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1592 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1595 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1599 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1602 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1606 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1609 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1610 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1611 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1612 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1613 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1614 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1618 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1621 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1622 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1623 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1628 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1631 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1632 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1637 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1640 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1641 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1642 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1647 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1650 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1651 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1652 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1656 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1662 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1669 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1672 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1673 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1674 unknown. Closes: #282924
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1678 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1685 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Spanish man page updates.
1688 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1693 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1699 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1702 * dh_desktop: reindent
1703 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1704 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1708 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1714 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1716 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1720 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1722 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1726 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1729 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1730 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1734 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1740 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1746 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1753 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1756 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1760 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1763 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1764 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1765 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1766 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1767 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1768 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1770 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1771 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1772 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1773 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1774 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1775 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1776 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1777 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1778 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1779 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1780 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1781 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1782 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1783 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1784 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1785 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1789 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1796 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1799 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1803 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1806 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1810 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1813 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1817 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1820 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1830 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1836 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1842 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1845 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1846 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1847 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1851 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1854 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1858 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1861 but occasionally right and necessary.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1865 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1868 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1869 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1870 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1871 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1872 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1876 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1879 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1881 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1882 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1883 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1884 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1885 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1886 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1887 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1888 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1889 postinst scripts for udebs.
1890 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1894 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1897 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1899 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1900 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1904 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1910 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1917 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1924 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1927 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1931 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1934 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1938 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1941 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1944 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1945 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1949 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1955 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1958 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1962 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1965 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1966 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1967 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1969 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1971 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1972 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1973 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1977 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1980 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1985 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1988 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1989 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1990 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1995 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2001 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2010 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2011 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2012 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2013 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2014 associated -dbg packages.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2018 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2021 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2025 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2028 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2032 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2035 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2039 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2042 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2047 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2050 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2057 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2062 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2065 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2069 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2073 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2074 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2075 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2076 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2077 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2078 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2079 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2080 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2081 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2082 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2089 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2097 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2098 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2102 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2105 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2106 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2114 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2118 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2121 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2125 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2128 out section number. Closes: #204731
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2132 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2139 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2145 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2151 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2154 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2155 removal. Closes: #204286
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2159 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2162 renaming. Closes: #203548
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2166 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2169 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2170 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2174 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2180 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2186 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2192 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2195 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2196 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2197 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2201 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2204 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2205 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2209 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2215 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2222 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2225 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2230 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2233 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2237 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2240 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2242 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2243 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2247 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2250 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2255 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2258 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2262 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2268 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2270 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2274 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2277 it break hard links (see #188663).
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2281 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2284 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2294 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2298 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2299 debconf-mergetemplates
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2303 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2306 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2310 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2313 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2317 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2320 * Update debhelper(1).
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2324 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2327 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2328 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2329 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2330 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2331 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2335 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2338 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2339 the shell. Closes: #178524
2340 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2344 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2347 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2351 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2354 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2358 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2361 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2362 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2363 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2364 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2369 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2372 files from installation.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2376 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2379 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2380 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2384 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2387 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2391 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2394 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2398 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2404 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2410 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2414 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2415 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2417 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2421 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2424 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2425 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2426 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2427 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2431 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2434 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2438 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2441 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2442 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2446 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2450 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2455 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2461 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2465 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2466 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2467 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2472 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2475 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2476 practice. Closes: #163303
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2480 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2486 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2493 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2496 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2498 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2499 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2500 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2501 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2502 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2509 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2514 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2520 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2527 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2530 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2535 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2541 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2547 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2553 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2560 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2563 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2564 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2565 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2566 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2587 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2588 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2595 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2596 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2597 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2598 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2599 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2603 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2606 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2608 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2613 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2616 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2623 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2624 right thing. Closes: #150644
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2628 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Stupid, evil typo.
2631 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2642 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2645 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2646 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2651 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2657 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2660 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2664 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2667 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2668 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2673 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2676 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2680 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2686 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2689 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2690 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2694 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2700 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Removing perl warning message.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2709 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2710 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2711 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2712 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2713 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2714 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2715 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2716 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2720 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2726 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2733 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2736 debconf-mergetemplate.
2737 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2738 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2742 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2745 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2746 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2747 dh_install, which ...
2748 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2749 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2750 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2751 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2752 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2753 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2754 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2755 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2756 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2757 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2758 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2759 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2760 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2761 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2762 other minor changes.
2763 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2764 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2765 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2766 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2767 course there's -X ..)
2768 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2769 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2770 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2772 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2773 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2774 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2775 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2776 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2781 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2787 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2790 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2794 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2800 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2806 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2812 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2818 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2821 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2822 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2823 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2824 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2826 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2827 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2831 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2837 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2840 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2844 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2847 upset. Closes: #131322
2849 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2851 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2854 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2855 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2856 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2857 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2858 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2859 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2860 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2861 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2862 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2863 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2864 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2865 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2866 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2867 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2868 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2870 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2874 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2877 - Better indenting of generated code.
2878 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2882 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2886 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2887 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2888 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2889 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2890 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2891 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2892 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2896 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2899 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2903 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2906 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2907 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2908 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2909 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2910 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2911 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2912 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2913 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2914 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2915 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2916 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2917 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2918 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2919 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2920 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2925 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2931 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2934 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2935 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2939 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2942 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2943 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2947 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2953 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2956 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2957 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2958 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2959 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2960 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2965 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2971 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2974 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2978 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2981 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2986 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2992 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2995 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2999 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3005 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3009 Also some indentation fixes.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3013 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3016 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3017 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3018 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3019 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3020 Closes: #106514, #85520
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3024 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3030 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3036 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3042 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3048 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3054 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3057 change it in debhelper v4..
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3061 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3067 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3070 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3074 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3077 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3081 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3087 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3090 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3091 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3092 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3093 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3094 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3095 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3096 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3097 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3098 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3099 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3100 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3101 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3105 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3108 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3112 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3119 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3122 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3123 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3124 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3125 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3126 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3127 program those options go to. So, for example,
3128 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3129 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3130 something complex. Closes: #89311
3131 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3135 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3138 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3139 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3140 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3144 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3147 through loop. Closes: #98598
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3151 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * Missing semi-colon.
3154 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3155 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3159 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3162 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3163 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3164 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3168 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3171 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3172 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3176 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3179 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3183 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3186 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3187 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3191 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3194 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3195 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3196 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3200 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3203 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3204 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3205 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3209 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3212 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3216 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3222 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3228 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3234 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3240 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3243 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3247 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3250 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3251 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3252 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3253 followed. Closes: #85483
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3257 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3259 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3260 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3261 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3265 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3268 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3269 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3270 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3271 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3272 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3273 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3274 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3275 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3276 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3277 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3278 Closes: #88464, #77743
3279 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3280 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3281 us to deal with that gracefully.
3282 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3284 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3285 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3286 a while, Closes: #51225
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3290 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3296 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3299 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3303 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3307 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3312 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3315 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3316 don't make packlist files.
3317 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3318 debhelper coding standards.
3319 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3320 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3324 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3327 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3331 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3334 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3335 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3336 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3337 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3338 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3339 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3340 but is mildly deprecated.
3341 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3342 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3343 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3344 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3345 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3346 switching to statoverrides..
3347 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3348 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3349 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3350 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3351 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3352 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3354 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3355 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3356 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3357 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3358 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3359 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3360 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3361 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3362 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3364 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3365 variable names, pod man pages).
3366 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3367 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3368 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3369 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3370 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3371 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3372 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3376 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3382 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3389 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3392 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3396 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3398 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3399 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3400 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3404 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3406 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3407 they were previously ignored.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3411 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3413 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3414 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3418 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3420 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3421 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3422 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3426 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3428 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3432 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3434 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3435 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3439 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3441 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3442 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3443 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3444 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3445 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3446 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3447 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3448 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3449 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3450 it is an obsolete program.
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3454 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3456 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3460 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3464 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3466 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3470 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3472 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3474 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3476 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3480 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3486 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * typo: Closes, #78567
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3492 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3498 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3504 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3507 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3508 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3509 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3510 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3511 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3515 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3518 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3523 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3526 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3527 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3528 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3529 backwards-compatability.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3533 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3536 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3537 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3538 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3539 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3540 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3541 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3543 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3544 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3545 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3547 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3549 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3550 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3551 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3552 should now be raised to severity important..
3553 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3554 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3558 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3561 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3566 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3572 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3578 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3584 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3591 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3594 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3595 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3596 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3597 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3601 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3607 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3610 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3611 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3612 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3613 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3614 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3615 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3620 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3623 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3627 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3633 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3636 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3641 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3644 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3645 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3646 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3647 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3651 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3655 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3658 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3661 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3662 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3665 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3667 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3668 the TODO entry about it.
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3672 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3679 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3682 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3683 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3687 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3690 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3691 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3692 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3693 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3697 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3703 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3710 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3713 (this appears to be logal).
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3717 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3720 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3721 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3722 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3723 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3733 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3736 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3737 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3738 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3739 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3743 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3749 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3752 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3756 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3763 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3766 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3767 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3768 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3773 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3780 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3786 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3789 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3790 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3791 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3792 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3793 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3794 notice until v2 is complete.
3795 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3796 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3797 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3798 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3799 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3800 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3802 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3803 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3804 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3805 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3809 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3815 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3822 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3825 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3829 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3836 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3839 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3840 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3841 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3842 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3847 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3850 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3851 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3852 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3857 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3860 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3861 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3865 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3868 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3872 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3875 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3879 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3886 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3889 depend on the build and install targets.
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3893 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3896 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3900 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3907 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3913 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3919 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3922 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3923 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3924 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3925 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3926 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3927 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3929 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3930 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3931 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3932 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3933 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3934 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3935 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3939 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3945 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3951 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3954 right place. Closes: #55065
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3958 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3965 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3968 * Copyright date updates.
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3972 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3975 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3980 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3986 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3993 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3999 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4005 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4011 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4014 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4015 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4016 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4017 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4018 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4019 bits until all files have been registered.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4023 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * dh_installmanpages:
4026 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4027 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4028 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4029 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4030 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4031 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4032 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4033 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4034 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4035 otherwise change the result at all.
4037 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4038 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4039 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4040 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4041 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4046 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4052 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4055 act on files that don't exist.
4056 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4057 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4058 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4060 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4061 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4062 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4063 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4067 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4073 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4079 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4082 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4086 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4089 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4091 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4092 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4093 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4097 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4100 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4101 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4102 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4103 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4104 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4105 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4106 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4108 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4110 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4121 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4127 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4133 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4136 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4140 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4152 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4155 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4156 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4157 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4158 I made some changes, though:
4159 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4160 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4161 that is a clear violation of policy.
4162 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4163 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4164 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4165 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4166 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4167 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4168 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4169 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4170 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4172 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4182 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4185 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4189 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4192 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4193 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4198 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4204 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4211 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4214 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4215 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4216 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4217 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4218 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4219 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4220 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4224 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4230 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4234 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4235 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4239 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4245 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4248 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4252 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4254 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4255 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4256 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4260 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4262 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4271 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4278 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4279 for the dependancies to be generated.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4286 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4293 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4294 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4295 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4300 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4303 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4304 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4308 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4314 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4320 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4323 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4327 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4333 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4336 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4337 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4338 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4339 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4340 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4341 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4342 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4343 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4344 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4345 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4346 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4347 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4351 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4354 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4355 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4357 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4358 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4359 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4360 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4361 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4362 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4364 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4365 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4369 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4372 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4386 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4391 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4394 for building debhelper.
4395 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4406 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4409 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4413 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4416 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4417 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4418 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4419 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4420 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4421 it's always available.
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4425 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4428 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4429 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4430 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4434 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4437 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4438 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4442 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4448 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4451 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4455 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4461 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4464 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4465 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4466 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4470 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4473 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4478 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4481 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4482 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4484 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4485 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4489 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4495 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4501 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4504 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4508 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4511 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4512 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4514 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4518 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4521 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4522 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4523 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4527 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4530 things if CDPATH is set.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4540 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4543 seems to make sense for the transition.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4550 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4555 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4558 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4559 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4563 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4566 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4570 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4573 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4574 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4575 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4576 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4586 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4589 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4590 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4591 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4592 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4593 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4594 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4595 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4596 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4597 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4598 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4603 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4606 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4607 * README: mention doc/v2
4608 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4609 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4613 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4615 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4616 be using this script RSN.
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4620 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4623 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4624 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4625 more than 1 init script.
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4629 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4632 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4636 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * Changed perl version detection.
4639 * Changed call to find.
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4643 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4646 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4648 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4653 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Really include dh_installpam.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4659 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4662 * Wrote man page for same.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4666 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4669 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4670 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4675 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4682 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4685 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4686 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4687 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4688 x bit was being set!
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4692 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4695 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4696 well. (Closes: 38900)
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4700 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4703 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4704 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4708 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4714 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4721 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4727 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4730 help from Julian Gilbey.
4731 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4732 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4733 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4734 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4735 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4736 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4737 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4742 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4748 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4755 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4761 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4767 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4770 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4774 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4777 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4781 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4784 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4788 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4794 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4797 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4801 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4807 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4813 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4816 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4817 may be deleted. (#35845)
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4821 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * Various man page enhancements.
4824 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4829 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4832 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4833 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4837 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4840 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4841 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4842 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4844 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4845 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4850 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4856 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * Another very minor typo fix.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4862 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Very minor typo fix.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4868 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4871 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4872 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4876 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4882 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4885 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4886 variables properly (#34850).
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4890 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4896 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4899 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4900 (automatically generated by build process).
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4904 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4906 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4910 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4913 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4914 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4916 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4920 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4923 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4927 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * README: minor typo fix.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4933 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4936 leave it at that. :-)
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4940 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4946 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4952 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4955 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4956 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4957 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4961 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4964 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4968 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4971 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4975 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4978 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4979 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4980 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4981 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4985 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4988 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4989 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4990 Craig Small for spotting this.
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4994 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4997 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4998 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5002 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5008 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5011 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5015 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5017 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5018 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5019 working on the last version of debhelper.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5023 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5026 being made. (#23255)
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5030 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5036 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5039 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5043 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5046 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5047 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5048 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5049 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5053 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5056 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5057 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5058 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5059 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5061 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5062 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5064 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5069 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5075 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5081 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5084 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5085 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5086 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5087 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5088 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5089 suidregister actually supports it.
5090 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5091 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5095 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5102 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5105 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5106 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5107 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5108 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5109 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5110 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5111 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5115 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5117 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5118 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5122 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5125 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5126 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5127 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5128 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5132 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5135 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5137 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5138 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5139 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5140 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5141 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5142 effect, either. (#30118)
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5146 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5152 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5155 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5156 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5160 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5166 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5169 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5170 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5171 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5172 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5176 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5179 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5180 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5184 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5190 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5193 packages, painlessly.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5197 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5203 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5209 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5215 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * The perl conversion is complete.
5219 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5221 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5222 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5223 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5228 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5231 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5232 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5233 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5237 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5240 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5242 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5244 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5245 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5249 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5252 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5253 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5257 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5263 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5266 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5267 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5268 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5269 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5270 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5274 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5277 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5278 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5279 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5280 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5284 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5287 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5291 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5294 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5295 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5296 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5297 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5298 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5299 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5300 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5301 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5305 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5311 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5314 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5315 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5316 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5321 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5324 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5328 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5331 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5335 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5338 sections of shared libraries.
5339 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5340 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5341 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5342 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5343 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5344 things you don't want them to.
5345 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5346 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5350 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5353 shared libraries. (#26414)
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5357 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5359 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5360 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5361 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5362 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5366 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5370 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5372 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5373 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5374 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5375 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5376 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5380 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5383 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5387 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5390 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5391 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5396 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5399 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5403 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5406 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5407 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5408 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5409 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5410 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5412 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5413 remove debian/files properly.
5414 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5415 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5416 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5417 * Removed bogus menu file.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5421 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5424 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5428 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5431 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5432 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5433 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5434 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5435 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5436 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5440 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5442 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5443 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5444 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5445 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5446 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5450 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5457 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5460 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5461 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5463 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5464 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5465 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5466 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5467 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5468 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5472 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5475 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5476 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5477 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5478 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5479 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5480 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5481 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5482 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5483 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5484 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5485 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5486 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5487 passed any switches.
5488 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5492 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5495 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5496 at all for a long while.
5497 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5498 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5499 large chunks in the process.
5500 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5501 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5502 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5507 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5510 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5512 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5517 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5520 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5521 that don't always have the same files in them.
5522 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5523 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5524 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5528 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5532 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5533 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5534 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5535 updating 27 man pages.
5536 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5537 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5538 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5539 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5540 programs act on. (#25247)
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5544 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5548 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5549 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5550 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5551 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5552 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5553 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5558 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5565 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5572 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5575 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5579 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5585 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5588 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5589 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5590 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5591 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5592 package by accident.
5593 * Is version 1.0 next?
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5597 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5600 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5601 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5605 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5608 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5609 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5610 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5611 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5612 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5614 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5619 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5622 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5623 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5627 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5630 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5634 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5637 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5638 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5643 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5649 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5652 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5653 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5658 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5664 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5667 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5668 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5669 past week. Thanks, guys!
5671 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5672 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5673 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5674 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5675 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5676 would do in the same situation.
5677 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5678 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5680 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5682 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5683 permissions changed.
5684 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5685 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5686 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5687 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5688 files are treated identically.
5689 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5690 * Minor man page fixes.
5691 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5692 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5693 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5697 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5700 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5701 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5702 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5703 use -X multiple times, too.
5704 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5705 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5709 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5712 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5713 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5717 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5720 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5724 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5727 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5728 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5729 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5730 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5731 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5732 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5733 shape if you're starting a new package.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5737 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5740 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5744 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5747 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5748 because of missing symlinks.
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5752 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5758 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5761 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5762 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5763 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5764 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5765 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5767 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5768 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5772 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5774 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5775 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5776 to be changed after the fact :-)
5777 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5781 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5783 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5784 no version string after the -V.
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5788 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5790 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5791 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5796 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5799 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5803 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5806 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5807 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5808 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5809 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5810 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5811 I always welcome corrections!
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5815 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5821 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5823 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5824 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5825 * Documented this new switch.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5829 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5832 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5833 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5834 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5835 no packages use the old behavior.
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5839 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5841 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5842 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5843 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5847 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5850 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5854 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5860 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5863 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5867 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5870 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5871 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5872 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5876 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5882 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5885 into the source package by accident.
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5889 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5892 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5893 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5894 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5895 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5896 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5897 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5902 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5906 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5907 inspired to implement some of it.
5908 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5912 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5915 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5919 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5922 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5923 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5927 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5930 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5931 have done.) (#17598)
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5935 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5941 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5947 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5950 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5954 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5956 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5957 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5958 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5962 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5965 argument processor in perl.
5966 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5967 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5968 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5969 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5973 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5976 type directories. (#16933)
5977 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5978 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5979 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5980 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5981 are supported. (#16935)
5982 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5987 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5990 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5994 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5996 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5998 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5999 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6000 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6001 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6002 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6003 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6007 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6009 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6010 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6011 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6013 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6014 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6015 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6016 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6017 a given package, or -i or -a.
6018 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6019 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6020 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6021 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6022 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6023 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6024 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6025 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6026 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6028 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6029 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6030 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6034 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6037 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6038 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6043 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6045 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6046 does not have a section.
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6050 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6053 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6054 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6055 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6059 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * Fixed typo #16215.
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6065 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6068 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6069 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6070 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6071 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6072 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6077 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6079 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6080 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6081 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6082 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6087 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6093 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6099 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6102 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6103 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6104 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6105 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6106 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6107 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6111 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6113 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6117 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6120 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6124 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6127 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6128 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6129 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6133 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6136 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6140 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6146 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6149 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6153 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6156 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6160 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6162 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6166 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6169 postinst, postrm, etc.
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6173 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6175 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6179 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6181 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6182 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6183 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6184 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6185 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6186 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6190 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6193 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6194 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6198 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6201 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6205 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6208 installing package files into.
6209 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6214 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6216 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6218 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6222 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6228 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6231 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6235 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6237 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6238 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6239 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6240 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6241 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6245 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6247 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6248 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6249 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6250 multiple binary packages.
6251 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6252 should rebuild them with this version.
6253 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6257 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6259 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6260 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6264 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6266 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6267 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6271 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6273 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6274 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6275 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6276 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6277 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6278 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6279 debian/README.debian.
6280 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6281 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6282 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6283 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6284 in a few situations.)
6286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6288 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6290 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6294 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6296 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6300 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6303 * Fixed several man pages.
6305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6307 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6309 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6310 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6311 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6315 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6318 is ready for general use.
6319 * Added man pages for all commands.
6320 * Multiple binary package support.
6321 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6322 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6323 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6325 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6326 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6327 auto-installed as parameters.
6328 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6330 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6333 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6334 the package build directory it is to act on.
6335 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6336 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6337 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6341 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6343 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6344 ready to replace debstd.
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400