1 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
3 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
7 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
10 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
11 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
12 created by using `python' first during build and install.
14 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
19 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
21 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
25 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
27 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
28 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
32 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
34 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
38 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
40 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
44 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
46 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
47 contributed by Modestas Vainius
48 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
49 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
50 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
51 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
52 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
53 that support it. Closes: #480577
54 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
55 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
56 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
58 - Adds support for cmake.
59 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
60 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
62 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
64 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
65 that use them. The options are:
66 --sourcedir, --destdir
67 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
68 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
69 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
70 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
71 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
75 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
81 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
84 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
85 default. Closes: #537140
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
89 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
92 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
93 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
97 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
100 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
104 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
106 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
107 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
111 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
114 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
116 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
117 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
118 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
122 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
125 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
126 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
127 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
131 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
134 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
135 warning or deprecation message.
136 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
137 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
138 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
139 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
140 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
141 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
142 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
143 Closes: #534639, #357434
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
147 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
149 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
153 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
155 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
156 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
157 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
158 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
159 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
161 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
162 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
163 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
167 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
173 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
180 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
183 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
187 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
191 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
192 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
194 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
195 file support. Closes: #494914
196 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
200 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
203 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
204 parameters. Closes: #527256
205 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
206 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
207 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
211 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
215 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
216 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
217 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
221 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
224 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
225 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
226 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
230 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
233 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
234 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
236 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
237 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
238 by triggers). Closes: #521181
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
242 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
246 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
250 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
253 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
254 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
255 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
256 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
261 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
267 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
270 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
271 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
272 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
273 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
274 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
276 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
277 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
278 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
279 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
280 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
281 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
285 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
288 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
289 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
290 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
291 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
292 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
294 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
298 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
300 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
304 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
306 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
307 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
308 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
309 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
310 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
311 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
312 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
313 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
314 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
315 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
316 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
320 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
322 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
323 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
325 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
326 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
327 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
328 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
330 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
331 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
335 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
337 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
338 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
339 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
340 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
341 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
342 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
343 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
345 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
346 that uses them. Affected options are:
347 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
348 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
349 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
350 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
351 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
352 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
353 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
354 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
355 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
356 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
357 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
358 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
362 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
369 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
375 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
377 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
378 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
380 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
381 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
382 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
383 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
384 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
386 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
388 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
389 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
390 rules (see bug #509756).
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
394 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
400 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
401 * Typo. Closes: #493062
402 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
403 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
407 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
410 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
411 empty files. Closes: #490937
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
415 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
421 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
428 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
431 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
432 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
433 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
434 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
439 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
441 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
442 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
443 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
444 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
448 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
451 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
452 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
453 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
454 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
455 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
459 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
466 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
468 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
469 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
470 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
471 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
472 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
473 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
474 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
475 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
476 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
477 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
481 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
484 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
485 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
486 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
487 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
489 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
490 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
491 breaking backwards compatability.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
495 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
498 message in perl 5.10.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
502 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
508 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Convert copyright file to new format.
511 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
515 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
518 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
522 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
525 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
526 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
527 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
528 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
529 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
530 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
531 logging by dh_listpackages.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
535 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
538 run and there are no packages of that type.
539 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
540 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
541 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
542 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
544 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
545 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
549 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
551 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
552 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
553 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
557 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
560 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
561 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
563 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
564 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
565 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
566 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
567 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
568 planned but not yet implemented.)
569 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
570 if the Makefile has such a target.
571 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
572 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
573 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
574 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
575 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
576 but not yet implemented.)
577 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
578 recommended default, especially when using dh.
579 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
580 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
581 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
583 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
585 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
586 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
588 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
589 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
590 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
595 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
598 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
599 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
603 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
605 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
606 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
607 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
611 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
617 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
623 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
626 just those installed by the program.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
630 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
633 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
634 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
638 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
640 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
641 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
642 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
643 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
644 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
648 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
651 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
652 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
656 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
659 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
660 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
664 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
667 with policy. Closes: #461392
668 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
669 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
670 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
671 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
672 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
676 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
679 Closes: #460340, #460351
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
683 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
686 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
687 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
688 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
689 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
693 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
695 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
696 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
697 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
698 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
699 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
700 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
701 package build directory won't work.
702 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
703 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
704 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
705 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
706 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
707 mode. Closes: #459426
708 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
713 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
716 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
720 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
724 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
725 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
726 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
727 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
728 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
729 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
733 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
736 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
737 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
738 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
739 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
743 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
746 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
747 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
748 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
749 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
750 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
754 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
757 debian/package.triggers files.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
761 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
764 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
768 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
771 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
772 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
773 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
774 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
779 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
782 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
786 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
789 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
790 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
792 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
797 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
801 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
802 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
803 * Typo. Closes: #441272
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
807 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
814 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
821 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
824 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
826 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
827 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
828 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
830 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
831 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
832 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
836 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
839 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
840 * Update urls to web page.
841 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
843 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
844 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
848 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
851 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
852 - typo in alternatives call
853 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
855 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
856 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
860 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
863 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
868 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
874 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
880 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
883 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
885 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
886 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
887 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
888 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
889 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
890 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
891 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
892 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
893 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
894 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
895 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
899 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
902 package install. Closes: #415717
903 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
904 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
905 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
906 script and then remove the python files.
907 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
908 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
909 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
910 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
911 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
912 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
913 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
914 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
915 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
916 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
917 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
918 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
919 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
923 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Correct typo in french translation
929 * Typo. Closes: #400571
930 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
932 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
934 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
935 Closes: #406921, #381940
936 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
938 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
939 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
940 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
941 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
942 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
943 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
944 specified). Closes: #381851
945 * Misc minor changes.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
949 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
956 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
957 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
961 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
967 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
968 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
971 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
972 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
974 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
975 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
976 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
977 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
981 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
984 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
987 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
991 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
997 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1003 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1004 a difficult situation.
1005 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1006 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1007 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1008 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1009 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1010 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1011 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1012 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1013 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1014 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1018 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Non-maintainer upload.
1021 * Update of dh_python
1022 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1023 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1025 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1026 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1027 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1028 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1029 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1031 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1033 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Non-maintainer upload.
1036 * Update of dh_python
1037 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1038 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1039 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1040 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1041 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1042 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1043 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1044 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1045 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1046 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1048 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1049 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1050 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1051 the not too-distant future).
1052 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1053 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1054 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1055 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1056 thus made the build fail.
1058 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1060 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Non-maintainer upload.
1063 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1065 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1067 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1070 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1071 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1072 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1073 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1074 package. Closes: #301424
1075 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1076 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1077 fonts). Closes: #372686
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1081 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1087 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1088 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1089 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1090 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1091 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1092 above, but already depends on that.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1096 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1099 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1100 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1101 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1102 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1103 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1107 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1113 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1119 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1120 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1124 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1127 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1131 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1135 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1136 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1137 new version (0.24.1).
1138 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1139 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1142 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1143 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1144 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1145 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1146 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1147 new directory on their own.
1148 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1149 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1153 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1156 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1157 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1158 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1159 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1163 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1166 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1167 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1168 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1169 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1170 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1174 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1180 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1184 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1185 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1189 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1190 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1194 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1196 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1197 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1199 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1200 ignored. Closes: #337664
1202 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1207 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1213 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1218 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1219 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1220 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1221 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1222 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1223 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1224 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1228 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1231 version. Closes: #350607
1232 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1233 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1234 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1235 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1239 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1242 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1243 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1244 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1248 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1255 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1261 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1264 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1268 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1271 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1272 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1273 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1274 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1275 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1276 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1280 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1283 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1284 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1289 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1292 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1296 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1299 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1303 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1306 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1307 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1308 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1309 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1310 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1311 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1315 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1319 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1320 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1321 link. Closes: #346405
1322 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1324 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1325 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1326 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1327 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1328 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1329 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1330 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1334 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1341 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1347 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1350 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1354 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1357 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1362 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1366 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1367 installed. Closes: #342033
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1371 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1374 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1375 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1376 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1381 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1387 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1393 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1397 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1398 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1399 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1403 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1406 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1411 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1418 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1424 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1427 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1428 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1429 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1430 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1431 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1432 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1433 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1435 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1439 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1442 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1443 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1447 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1450 in standard man dirs.
1451 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1455 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1461 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1464 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1469 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1476 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1483 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1486 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1487 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1491 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1494 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1495 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1496 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1498 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1500 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1506 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1512 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1515 mode. Closes: #324161
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1519 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1522 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1523 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1524 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1525 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1530 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1533 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1534 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1535 is necesary for sanity.
1536 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1537 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1542 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1544 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1545 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1549 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1552 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1556 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1562 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1565 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1566 released, so use at your own risk.
1567 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1568 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1570 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1571 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1572 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1573 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1574 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1575 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1576 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1577 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1578 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1579 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1580 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1581 including twice per config file line now..
1582 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1583 and simplfy the rules file.
1584 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1585 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1586 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1588 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1589 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1593 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1596 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1600 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1603 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1607 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1610 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1614 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1617 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1618 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1619 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1620 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1621 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1622 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1626 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1629 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1630 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1631 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1636 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1639 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1640 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1645 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1648 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1649 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1650 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1655 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1658 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1659 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1660 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1664 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1670 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1677 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1680 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1681 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1682 unknown. Closes: #282924
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1686 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1693 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Spanish man page updates.
1696 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1701 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1707 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1710 * dh_desktop: reindent
1711 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1712 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1716 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1722 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1724 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1728 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1730 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1734 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1737 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1738 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1742 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1748 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1754 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1761 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1764 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1768 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1771 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1772 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1773 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1774 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1775 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1776 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1778 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1779 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1780 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1781 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1782 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1783 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1784 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1785 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1786 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1787 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1788 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1789 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1790 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1791 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1792 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1793 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1797 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1804 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1807 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1811 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1814 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1818 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1821 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1825 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1828 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1832 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1838 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1844 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1850 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1853 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1854 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1855 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1859 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1862 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1866 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1869 but occasionally right and necessary.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1873 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1876 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1877 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1878 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1879 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1880 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1884 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1887 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1889 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1890 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1891 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1892 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1893 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1894 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1895 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1896 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1897 postinst scripts for udebs.
1898 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1902 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1905 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1907 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1908 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1912 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1918 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1925 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1932 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1935 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1939 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1942 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1946 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1949 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1952 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1953 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1957 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1963 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1966 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1970 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1973 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1974 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1975 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1977 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1979 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1980 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1981 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1985 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1988 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1993 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1996 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1997 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1998 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2003 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2009 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2018 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2019 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2020 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2021 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2022 associated -dbg packages.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2026 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2029 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2036 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2040 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2043 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2047 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2050 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2055 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2058 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2062 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2065 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2070 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2073 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2077 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2081 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2082 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2083 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2084 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2085 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2086 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2087 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2088 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2089 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2090 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2097 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2102 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2105 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2106 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2110 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2113 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2114 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2119 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2122 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2126 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2129 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2133 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2136 out section number. Closes: #204731
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2140 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2147 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2159 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2162 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2163 removal. Closes: #204286
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2170 renaming. Closes: #203548
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2174 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2177 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2178 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2188 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2194 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2200 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2203 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2204 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2205 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2209 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2212 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2213 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2217 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2230 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2233 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2241 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2248 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2250 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2251 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2255 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2258 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2263 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2266 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2276 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2278 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2285 it break hard links (see #188663).
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2289 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2292 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2296 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2302 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2306 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2307 debconf-mergetemplates
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2311 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2314 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2318 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2321 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2325 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2328 * Update debhelper(1).
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2332 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2335 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2336 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2337 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2338 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2339 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2343 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2346 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2347 the shell. Closes: #178524
2348 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2352 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2355 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2359 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2362 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2366 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2369 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2370 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2371 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2372 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2377 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2380 files from installation.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2384 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2387 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2388 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2392 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2395 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2399 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2402 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2406 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2412 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2418 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2422 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2423 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2425 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2429 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2432 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2433 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2434 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2435 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2439 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2442 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2446 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2449 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2450 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2454 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2458 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2473 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2474 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2475 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2480 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2483 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2484 practice. Closes: #163303
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2494 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2504 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2506 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2507 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2508 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2509 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2510 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2514 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2517 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2535 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2538 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2549 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2561 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2568 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2571 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2572 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2573 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2574 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2579 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2585 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2595 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2596 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2600 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2603 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2604 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2605 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2606 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2607 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2611 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2614 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2616 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2621 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2624 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2628 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2631 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2632 right thing. Closes: #150644
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2636 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Stupid, evil typo.
2639 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2650 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2653 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2654 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2659 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2665 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2668 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2672 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2675 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2676 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2681 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2684 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2688 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2694 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2697 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2698 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2702 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2708 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Removing perl warning message.
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2714 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2717 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2718 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2719 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2720 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2721 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2722 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2723 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2724 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2728 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2734 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2741 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2744 debconf-mergetemplate.
2745 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2746 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2750 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2753 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2754 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2755 dh_install, which ...
2756 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2757 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2758 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2759 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2760 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2761 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2762 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2763 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2764 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2765 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2766 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2767 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2768 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2769 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2770 other minor changes.
2771 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2772 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2773 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2774 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2775 course there's -X ..)
2776 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2777 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2778 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2780 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2781 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2782 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2783 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2784 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2789 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2795 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2798 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2802 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2808 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2814 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2820 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2826 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2829 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2830 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2831 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2832 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2834 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2835 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2839 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2845 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2848 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2852 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2855 upset. Closes: #131322
2857 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2859 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2862 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2863 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2864 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2865 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2866 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2867 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2868 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2869 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2870 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2871 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2872 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2873 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2874 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2875 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2876 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2878 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2882 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2885 - Better indenting of generated code.
2886 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2890 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2894 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2895 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2896 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2897 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2898 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2899 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2900 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2904 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2907 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2911 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2914 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2915 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2916 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2917 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2918 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2919 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2920 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2921 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2922 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2923 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2924 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2925 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2926 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2927 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2928 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2933 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2939 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2942 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2943 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2947 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2950 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2951 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2955 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2961 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2964 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2965 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2966 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2967 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2968 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2973 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2979 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2982 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2986 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2989 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2994 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3000 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3003 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3007 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3013 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3017 Also some indentation fixes.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3021 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3024 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3025 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3026 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3027 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3028 Closes: #106514, #85520
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3032 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3038 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3044 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3050 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3056 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3062 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3065 change it in debhelper v4..
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3069 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3075 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3078 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3082 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3085 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3089 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3095 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3098 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3099 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3100 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3101 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3102 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3103 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3104 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3105 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3106 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3107 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3108 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3109 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3113 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3116 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3120 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3127 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3130 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3131 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3132 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3133 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3134 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3135 program those options go to. So, for example,
3136 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3137 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3138 something complex. Closes: #89311
3139 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3143 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3146 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3147 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3148 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3152 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3155 through loop. Closes: #98598
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3159 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Missing semi-colon.
3162 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3163 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3167 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3170 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3171 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3172 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3176 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3179 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3180 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3184 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3187 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3191 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3194 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3195 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3199 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3202 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3203 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3204 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3208 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3211 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3212 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3213 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3217 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3220 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3224 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3230 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3236 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3242 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3248 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3251 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3255 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3258 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3259 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3260 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3261 followed. Closes: #85483
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3265 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3267 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3268 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3269 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3273 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3276 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3277 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3278 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3279 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3280 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3281 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3282 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3283 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3284 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3285 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3286 Closes: #88464, #77743
3287 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3288 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3289 us to deal with that gracefully.
3290 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3292 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3293 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3294 a while, Closes: #51225
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3298 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3304 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3307 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3311 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3315 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3320 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3323 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3324 don't make packlist files.
3325 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3326 debhelper coding standards.
3327 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3328 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3332 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3335 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3339 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3342 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3343 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3344 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3345 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3346 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3347 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3348 but is mildly deprecated.
3349 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3350 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3351 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3352 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3353 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3354 switching to statoverrides..
3355 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3356 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3357 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3358 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3359 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3360 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3362 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3363 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3364 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3365 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3366 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3367 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3368 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3369 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3370 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3372 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3373 variable names, pod man pages).
3374 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3375 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3376 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3377 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3378 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3379 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3380 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3384 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3390 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3397 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3400 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3404 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3406 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3407 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3408 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3412 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3414 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3415 they were previously ignored.
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3419 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3421 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3422 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3426 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3428 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3429 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3430 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3434 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3436 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3440 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3442 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3443 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3447 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3449 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3450 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3451 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3452 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3453 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3454 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3455 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3456 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3457 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3458 it is an obsolete program.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3462 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3464 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3468 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3472 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3474 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3478 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3480 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3482 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3484 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3488 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3494 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * typo: Closes, #78567
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3500 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3506 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3512 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3515 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3516 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3517 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3518 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3519 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3523 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3526 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3531 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3534 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3535 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3536 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3537 backwards-compatability.
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3541 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3544 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3545 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3546 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3547 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3548 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3549 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3551 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3552 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3553 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3555 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3557 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3558 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3559 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3560 should now be raised to severity important..
3561 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3562 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3566 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3569 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3574 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3580 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3586 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3592 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3599 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3602 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3603 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3604 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3605 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3609 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3615 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3618 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3619 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3620 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3621 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3622 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3623 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3628 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3631 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3635 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3641 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3644 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3649 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3652 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3653 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3654 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3655 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3659 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3663 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3666 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3669 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3670 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3673 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3675 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3676 the TODO entry about it.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3680 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3687 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3690 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3691 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3695 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3698 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3699 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3700 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3701 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3705 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3711 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3718 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3721 (this appears to be logal).
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3725 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3728 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3729 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3730 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3731 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3735 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3741 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3744 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3745 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3746 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3747 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3751 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3757 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3760 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3764 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3771 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3774 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3775 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3776 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3781 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3788 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3794 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3797 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3798 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3799 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3800 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3801 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3802 notice until v2 is complete.
3803 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3804 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3805 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3806 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3807 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3808 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3810 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3811 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3812 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3813 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3817 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3823 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3830 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3833 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3837 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3844 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3847 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3848 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3849 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3850 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3855 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3858 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3859 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3860 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3865 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3868 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3869 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3873 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3876 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3880 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3883 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3887 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3894 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3897 depend on the build and install targets.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3901 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3904 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3908 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3915 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3921 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3927 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3930 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3931 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3932 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3933 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3934 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3935 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3937 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3938 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3939 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3940 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3941 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3942 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3943 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3947 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3953 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3959 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3962 right place. Closes: #55065
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3966 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3973 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3976 * Copyright date updates.
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3980 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3983 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3988 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3994 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4001 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4013 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4019 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4022 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4023 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4024 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4025 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4026 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4027 bits until all files have been registered.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4031 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_installmanpages:
4034 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4035 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4036 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4037 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4038 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4039 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4040 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4041 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4042 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4043 otherwise change the result at all.
4045 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4046 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4047 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4048 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4049 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4054 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4060 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4063 act on files that don't exist.
4064 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4065 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4066 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4068 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4069 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4070 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4071 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4075 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4081 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4087 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4090 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4094 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4097 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4099 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4100 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4101 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4105 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4108 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4109 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4110 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4111 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4112 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4113 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4114 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4116 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4118 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4122 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4129 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4135 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4141 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4144 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4148 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4154 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4163 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4164 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4165 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4166 I made some changes, though:
4167 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4168 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4169 that is a clear violation of policy.
4170 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4171 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4172 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4173 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4174 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4175 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4176 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4177 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4178 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4180 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4184 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4190 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4193 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4200 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4201 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4222 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4223 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4224 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4225 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4226 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4227 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4228 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4238 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4242 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4243 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4247 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4256 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4260 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4263 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4264 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4268 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4270 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4279 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4286 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4287 for the dependancies to be generated.
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4291 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4294 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4298 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4301 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4302 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4303 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4308 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4311 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4312 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4322 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4328 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4331 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4335 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4341 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4344 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4345 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4346 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4347 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4348 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4349 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4350 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4351 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4352 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4353 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4354 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4355 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4359 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4362 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4363 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4365 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4366 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4367 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4368 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4369 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4370 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4372 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4373 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4377 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4380 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4384 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4391 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4394 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4402 for building debhelper.
4403 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4407 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4414 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4417 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4421 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4424 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4425 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4426 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4427 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4428 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4429 it's always available.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4436 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4437 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4438 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4442 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4445 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4446 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4450 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4456 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4459 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4463 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4469 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4472 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4473 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4474 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4478 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4481 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4486 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4489 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4490 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4492 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4493 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4497 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4503 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4509 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4512 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4516 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4519 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4520 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4522 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4526 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4529 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4530 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4531 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4535 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4538 things if CDPATH is set.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4542 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4548 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4551 seems to make sense for the transition.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4555 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4558 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4563 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4566 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4567 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4571 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4574 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4578 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4581 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4582 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4583 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4584 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4597 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4598 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4599 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4600 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4601 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4602 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4603 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4604 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4605 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4606 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4611 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4614 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4615 * README: mention doc/v2
4616 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4617 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4621 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4623 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4624 be using this script RSN.
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4628 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4631 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4632 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4633 more than 1 init script.
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4637 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4640 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4644 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * Changed perl version detection.
4647 * Changed call to find.
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4651 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4654 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4656 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4661 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * Really include dh_installpam.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4667 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4670 * Wrote man page for same.
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4674 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4677 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4678 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4683 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4690 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4693 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4694 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4695 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4696 x bit was being set!
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4700 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4703 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4704 well. (Closes: 38900)
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4708 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4711 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4712 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4716 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4722 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4729 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4735 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4738 help from Julian Gilbey.
4739 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4740 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4741 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4742 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4743 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4744 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4745 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4750 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4756 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4763 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4769 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4775 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4778 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4782 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4785 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4789 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4792 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4796 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4802 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4805 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4809 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4815 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4821 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4824 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4825 may be deleted. (#35845)
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4829 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Various man page enhancements.
4832 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4837 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4840 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4841 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4845 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4848 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4849 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4850 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4852 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4853 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4858 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4864 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * Another very minor typo fix.
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4870 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * Very minor typo fix.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4876 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4879 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4880 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4884 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4890 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4893 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4894 variables properly (#34850).
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4898 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4904 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4907 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4908 (automatically generated by build process).
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4912 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4914 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4918 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4921 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4922 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4924 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4928 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4931 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4935 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * README: minor typo fix.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4941 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4944 leave it at that. :-)
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4948 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4954 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4960 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4963 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4964 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4965 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4969 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4972 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4976 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4979 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4983 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4986 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4987 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4988 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4989 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4993 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4996 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4997 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4998 Craig Small for spotting this.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5002 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5005 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5006 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5010 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5016 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5019 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5023 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5025 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5026 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5027 working on the last version of debhelper.
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5031 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5034 being made. (#23255)
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5038 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5044 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5047 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5051 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5054 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5055 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5056 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5057 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5061 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5064 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5065 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5066 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5067 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5069 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5070 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5072 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5077 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5083 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5089 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5092 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5093 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5094 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5095 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5096 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5097 suidregister actually supports it.
5098 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5099 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5103 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5110 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5113 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5114 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5115 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5116 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5117 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5118 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5119 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5123 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5125 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5126 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5130 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5133 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5134 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5135 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5136 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5140 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5143 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5145 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5146 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5147 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5148 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5149 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5150 effect, either. (#30118)
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5154 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5160 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5163 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5164 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5168 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5174 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5177 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5178 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5179 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5180 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5184 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5187 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5188 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5192 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5198 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5201 packages, painlessly.
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5205 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5211 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5217 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5223 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * The perl conversion is complete.
5227 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5229 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5230 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5231 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5236 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5239 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5240 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5241 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5245 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5248 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5250 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5252 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5253 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5257 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5260 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5261 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5265 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5271 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5274 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5275 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5276 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5277 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5278 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5282 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5285 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5286 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5287 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5288 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5292 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5295 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5299 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5302 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5303 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5304 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5305 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5306 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5307 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5308 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5309 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5313 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5319 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5322 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5323 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5324 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5329 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5332 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5336 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5339 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5343 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5346 sections of shared libraries.
5347 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5348 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5349 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5350 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5351 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5352 things you don't want them to.
5353 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5354 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5358 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5361 shared libraries. (#26414)
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5365 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5367 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5368 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5369 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5370 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5374 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5378 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5380 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5381 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5382 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5383 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5384 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5388 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5391 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5395 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5398 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5399 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5404 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5407 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5411 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5414 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5415 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5416 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5417 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5418 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5420 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5421 remove debian/files properly.
5422 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5423 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5424 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5425 * Removed bogus menu file.
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5429 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5432 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5436 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5439 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5440 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5441 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5442 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5443 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5444 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5448 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5451 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5452 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5453 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5454 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5458 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5465 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5468 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5469 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5471 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5472 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5473 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5474 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5475 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5476 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5480 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5483 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5484 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5485 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5486 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5487 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5488 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5489 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5490 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5491 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5492 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5493 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5494 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5495 passed any switches.
5496 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5500 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5503 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5504 at all for a long while.
5505 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5506 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5507 large chunks in the process.
5508 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5509 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5510 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5515 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5518 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5520 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5525 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5528 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5529 that don't always have the same files in them.
5530 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5531 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5532 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5536 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5540 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5541 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5542 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5543 updating 27 man pages.
5544 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5545 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5546 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5547 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5548 programs act on. (#25247)
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5552 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5556 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5557 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5558 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5559 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5560 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5561 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5566 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5573 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5580 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5583 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5587 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5593 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5596 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5597 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5598 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5599 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5600 package by accident.
5601 * Is version 1.0 next?
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5605 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5608 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5609 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5613 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5616 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5617 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5618 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5619 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5620 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5622 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5627 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5630 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5631 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5635 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5638 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5642 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5645 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5646 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5651 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5657 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5660 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5661 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5666 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5672 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5675 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5676 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5677 past week. Thanks, guys!
5679 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5680 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5681 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5682 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5683 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5684 would do in the same situation.
5685 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5686 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5688 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5690 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5691 permissions changed.
5692 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5693 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5694 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5695 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5696 files are treated identically.
5697 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5698 * Minor man page fixes.
5699 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5700 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5701 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5705 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5708 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5709 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5710 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5711 use -X multiple times, too.
5712 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5713 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5717 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5720 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5721 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5725 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5728 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5732 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5735 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5736 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5737 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5738 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5739 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5740 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5741 shape if you're starting a new package.
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5745 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5748 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5752 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5755 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5756 because of missing symlinks.
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5760 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5766 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5769 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5770 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5771 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5772 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5773 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5775 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5776 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5780 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5782 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5783 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5784 to be changed after the fact :-)
5785 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5789 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5791 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5792 no version string after the -V.
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5796 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5798 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5799 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5804 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5807 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5811 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5814 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5815 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5816 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5817 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5818 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5819 I always welcome corrections!
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5823 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5829 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5832 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5833 * Documented this new switch.
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5837 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5840 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5841 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5842 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5843 no packages use the old behavior.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5847 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5850 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5851 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5855 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5858 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5862 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5868 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5870 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5871 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5875 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5878 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5879 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5880 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5884 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5890 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5893 into the source package by accident.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5897 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5900 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5901 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5902 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5903 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5904 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5905 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5910 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5914 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5915 inspired to implement some of it.
5916 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5920 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5923 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5927 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5930 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5931 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5935 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5938 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5939 have done.) (#17598)
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5943 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5949 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5955 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5958 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5962 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5965 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5966 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5970 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5973 argument processor in perl.
5974 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5975 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5976 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5977 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5981 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5984 type directories. (#16933)
5985 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5986 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5987 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5988 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5989 are supported. (#16935)
5990 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5995 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5998 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6002 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6006 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6007 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6008 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6009 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6010 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6011 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6015 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6018 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6019 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6021 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6022 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6023 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6024 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6025 a given package, or -i or -a.
6026 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6027 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6028 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6029 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6030 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6031 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6032 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6033 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6034 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6036 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6037 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6038 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6042 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6045 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6046 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6051 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6054 does not have a section.
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6058 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6061 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6062 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6063 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6067 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * Fixed typo #16215.
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6073 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6076 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6077 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6078 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6079 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6080 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6085 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6088 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6089 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6090 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6095 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6101 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6107 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6110 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6111 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6112 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6113 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6114 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6115 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6119 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6121 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6125 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6127 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6128 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6132 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6135 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6136 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6137 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6141 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6144 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6148 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6150 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6154 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6156 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6157 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6161 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6163 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6164 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6168 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6174 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6176 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6177 postinst, postrm, etc.
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6181 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6187 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6190 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6191 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6192 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6193 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6194 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6198 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6201 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6202 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6206 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6209 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6213 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6216 installing package files into.
6217 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6222 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6226 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6230 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6236 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6238 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6239 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6243 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6246 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6247 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6248 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6249 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6253 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6255 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6256 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6257 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6258 multiple binary packages.
6259 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6260 should rebuild them with this version.
6261 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6265 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6267 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6268 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6272 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6275 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6279 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6282 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6283 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6284 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6285 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6286 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6287 debian/README.debian.
6288 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6289 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6290 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6291 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6292 in a few situations.)
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6296 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6302 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6304 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6308 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6310 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6311 * Fixed several man pages.
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6315 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6318 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6319 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6323 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6326 is ready for general use.
6327 * Added man pages for all commands.
6328 * Multiple binary package support.
6329 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6330 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6331 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6333 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6334 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6335 auto-installed as parameters.
6336 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6338 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6341 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6342 the package build directory it is to act on.
6343 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6344 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6345 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6349 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6351 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6352 ready to replace debstd.
6354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400