1 debhelper (7.2.15) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_strip: Also strip OCaml shared libraries. (Stephane Glondu)
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 15:42:04 -0400
8 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
14 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
21 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
24 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
28 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
32 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
33 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
35 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
36 file support. Closes: #494914
37 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
41 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
44 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
45 parameters. Closes: #527256
46 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
47 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
48 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
52 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
56 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
57 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
58 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
62 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
65 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
66 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
67 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
71 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
74 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
75 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
77 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
78 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
79 by triggers). Closes: #521181
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
83 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
87 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
91 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
94 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
95 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
96 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
97 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
102 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
108 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
111 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
112 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
113 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
114 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
115 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
117 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
118 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
119 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
120 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
121 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
122 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
126 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
128 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
129 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
130 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
131 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
132 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
133 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
135 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
139 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
141 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
145 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
147 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
148 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
149 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
150 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
151 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
152 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
153 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
154 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
155 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
156 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
157 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
161 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
163 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
164 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
166 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
167 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
168 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
169 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
171 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
172 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
176 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
178 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
179 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
180 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
181 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
182 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
183 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
184 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
186 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
187 that uses them. Affected options are:
188 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
189 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
190 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
191 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
192 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
193 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
194 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
195 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
196 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
197 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
198 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
199 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
203 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
210 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
216 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
218 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
219 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
221 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
222 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
223 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
224 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
225 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
227 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
229 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
230 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
231 rules (see bug #509756).
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
235 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
241 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
242 * Typo. Closes: #493062
243 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
244 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
248 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
251 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
252 empty files. Closes: #490937
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
256 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
262 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
269 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
272 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
273 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
274 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
275 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
280 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
282 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
283 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
284 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
285 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
289 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
292 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
293 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
294 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
295 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
296 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
300 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
307 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
309 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
310 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
311 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
312 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
313 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
314 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
315 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
316 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
317 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
318 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
322 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
325 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
326 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
327 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
328 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
330 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
331 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
332 breaking backwards compatability.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
336 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
339 message in perl 5.10.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
343 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
349 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Convert copyright file to new format.
352 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
356 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
359 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
363 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
366 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
367 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
368 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
369 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
370 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
371 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
372 logging by dh_listpackages.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
376 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
379 run and there are no packages of that type.
380 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
381 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
382 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
383 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
385 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
386 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
390 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
392 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
393 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
394 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
398 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
401 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
402 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
404 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
405 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
406 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
407 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
408 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
409 planned but not yet implemented.)
410 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
411 if the Makefile has such a target.
412 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
413 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
414 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
415 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
416 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
417 but not yet implemented.)
418 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
419 recommended default, especially when using dh.
420 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
421 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
422 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
424 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
426 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
427 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
429 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
430 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
431 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
436 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
439 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
440 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
444 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
446 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
447 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
448 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
452 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
458 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
464 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
467 just those installed by the program.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
471 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
474 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
475 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
479 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
482 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
483 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
484 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
485 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
489 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
492 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
493 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
497 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
500 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
501 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
505 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
508 with policy. Closes: #461392
509 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
510 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
511 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
512 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
513 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
517 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
520 Closes: #460340, #460351
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
524 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
527 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
528 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
529 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
530 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
534 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
537 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
538 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
539 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
540 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
541 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
542 package build directory won't work.
543 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
544 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
545 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
546 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
547 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
548 mode. Closes: #459426
549 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
554 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
557 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
561 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
565 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
566 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
567 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
568 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
569 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
570 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
574 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
576 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
577 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
578 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
579 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
580 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
584 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
587 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
588 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
589 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
590 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
591 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
595 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
598 debian/package.triggers files.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
602 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
605 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
609 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
612 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
613 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
614 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
615 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
620 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
623 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
627 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
630 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
631 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
633 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
638 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
640 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
642 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
643 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
644 * Typo. Closes: #441272
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
648 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
655 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
662 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
665 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
667 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
668 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
669 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
671 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
672 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
673 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
677 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
680 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
681 * Update urls to web page.
682 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
684 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
685 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
689 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
692 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
693 - typo in alternatives call
694 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
696 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
697 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
701 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
704 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
709 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
715 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
721 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
724 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
726 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
727 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
728 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
729 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
730 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
731 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
732 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
733 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
734 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
735 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
736 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
740 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
743 package install. Closes: #415717
744 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
745 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
746 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
747 script and then remove the python files.
748 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
749 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
750 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
751 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
752 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
753 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
754 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
755 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
756 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
757 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
758 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
759 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
760 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
764 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Correct typo in french translation
770 * Typo. Closes: #400571
771 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
773 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
775 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
776 Closes: #406921, #381940
777 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
779 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
780 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
781 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
782 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
783 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
784 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
785 specified). Closes: #381851
786 * Misc minor changes.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
790 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
797 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
798 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
802 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
808 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
809 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
812 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
813 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
815 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
816 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
817 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
818 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
822 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
825 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
828 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
832 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
838 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
844 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
845 a difficult situation.
846 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
847 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
848 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
849 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
850 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
851 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
852 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
853 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
854 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
855 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
859 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Non-maintainer upload.
862 * Update of dh_python
863 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
864 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
866 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
867 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
868 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
869 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
870 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
872 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
874 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Non-maintainer upload.
877 * Update of dh_python
878 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
879 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
880 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
881 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
882 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
883 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
884 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
885 specific python version. Closes: #373853
886 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
887 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
889 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
890 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
891 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
892 the not too-distant future).
893 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
894 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
895 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
896 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
897 thus made the build fail.
899 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
901 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Non-maintainer upload.
904 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
906 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
908 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
911 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
912 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
913 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
914 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
915 package. Closes: #301424
916 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
917 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
918 fonts). Closes: #372686
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
922 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
928 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
929 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
930 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
931 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
932 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
933 above, but already depends on that.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
937 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
940 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
941 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
942 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
943 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
944 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
948 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
954 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
960 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
961 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
965 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
968 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
972 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
976 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
977 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
978 new version (0.24.1).
979 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
980 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
983 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
984 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
985 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
986 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
987 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
988 new directory on their own.
989 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
990 * Fix broken directory removal code.
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
994 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
997 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
998 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
999 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1000 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1004 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1007 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1008 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1009 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1010 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1011 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1015 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1021 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1025 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1026 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1030 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1031 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1035 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1037 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1038 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1040 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1041 ignored. Closes: #337664
1043 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1048 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1054 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1059 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1060 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1061 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1062 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1063 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1064 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1065 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1069 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1072 version. Closes: #350607
1073 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1074 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1075 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1076 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1080 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1083 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1084 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1085 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1089 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1096 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1102 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1105 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1109 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1112 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1113 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1114 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1115 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1116 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1117 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1121 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1124 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1125 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1130 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1133 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1137 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1140 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1144 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1147 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1148 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1149 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1150 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1151 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1152 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1156 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1160 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1161 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1162 link. Closes: #346405
1163 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1165 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1166 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1167 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1168 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1169 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1170 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1171 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1175 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1182 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1188 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1191 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1195 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1198 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1203 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1207 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1208 installed. Closes: #342033
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1212 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1215 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1216 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1217 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1222 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1228 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1234 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1238 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1239 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1240 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1244 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1247 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1252 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1259 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1265 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1268 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1269 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1270 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1271 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1272 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1273 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1274 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1276 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1280 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1283 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1284 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1288 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1291 in standard man dirs.
1292 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1296 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1302 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1305 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1310 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1317 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1324 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1327 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1328 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1332 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1335 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1336 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1337 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1339 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1341 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1347 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1353 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1356 mode. Closes: #324161
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1360 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1363 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1364 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1365 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1366 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1371 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1374 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1375 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1376 is necesary for sanity.
1377 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1378 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1383 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1385 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1386 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1390 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1393 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1397 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1403 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1406 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1407 released, so use at your own risk.
1408 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1409 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1411 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1412 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1413 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1414 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1415 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1416 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1417 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1418 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1419 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1420 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1421 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1422 including twice per config file line now..
1423 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1424 and simplfy the rules file.
1425 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1426 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1427 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1429 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1430 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1434 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1437 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1441 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1444 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1448 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1451 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1455 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1458 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1459 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1460 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1461 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1462 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1463 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1467 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1470 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1471 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1472 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1477 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1480 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1481 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1486 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1489 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1490 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1491 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1496 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1499 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1500 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1501 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1505 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1511 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1518 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1521 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1522 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1523 unknown. Closes: #282924
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1527 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1534 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Spanish man page updates.
1537 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1542 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1548 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1551 * dh_desktop: reindent
1552 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1553 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1557 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1563 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1565 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1569 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1571 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1575 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1578 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1579 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1583 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1589 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1595 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1602 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1605 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1609 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1612 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1613 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1614 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1615 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1616 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1617 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1619 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1620 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1621 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1622 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1623 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1624 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1625 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1626 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1627 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1628 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1629 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1630 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1631 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1632 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1633 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1634 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1638 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1645 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1648 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1652 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1655 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1659 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1662 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1666 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1669 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1673 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1679 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1685 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1691 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1694 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1695 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1696 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1700 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1703 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1707 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1710 but occasionally right and necessary.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1714 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1717 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1718 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1719 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1720 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1721 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1725 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1728 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1730 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1731 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1732 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1733 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1734 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1735 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1736 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1737 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1738 postinst scripts for udebs.
1739 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1743 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1746 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1748 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1749 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1753 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1759 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1766 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1773 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1776 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1780 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1783 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1787 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1790 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1793 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1794 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1798 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1804 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1807 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1811 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1814 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1815 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1816 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1818 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1820 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1821 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1822 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1826 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1829 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1834 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1837 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1838 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1839 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1844 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1850 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1856 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1859 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1860 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1861 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1862 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1863 associated -dbg packages.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1867 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1870 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1874 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1877 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1881 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1884 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1888 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1891 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1899 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1903 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1906 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1911 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1914 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1918 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1922 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1923 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1924 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1925 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1926 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1927 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1928 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1929 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1930 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1931 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1935 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1938 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1943 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1946 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1947 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1951 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1954 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1955 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1960 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1963 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1970 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1977 out section number. Closes: #204731
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1981 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1988 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1994 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2000 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2003 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2004 removal. Closes: #204286
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2011 renaming. Closes: #203548
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2018 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2019 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2023 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2035 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2041 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2044 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2045 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2046 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2050 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2053 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2054 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2058 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2064 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2074 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2082 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2089 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2091 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2092 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2096 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2099 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2107 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2119 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2123 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2126 it break hard links (see #188663).
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2133 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2143 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2147 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2148 debconf-mergetemplates
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2152 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2155 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2159 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2162 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2166 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2169 * Update debhelper(1).
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2173 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2176 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2177 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2178 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2179 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2180 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2184 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2187 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2188 the shell. Closes: #178524
2189 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2193 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2196 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2200 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2203 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2207 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2210 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2211 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2212 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2213 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2218 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2221 files from installation.
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2225 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2228 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2229 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2233 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2236 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2240 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2243 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2247 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2253 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2259 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2263 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2264 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2266 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2270 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2273 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2274 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2275 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2276 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2280 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2283 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2287 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2290 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2291 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2295 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2299 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2310 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2314 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2315 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2316 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2321 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2324 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2325 practice. Closes: #163303
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2329 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2345 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2347 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2348 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2349 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2350 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2351 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2358 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2363 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2369 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2379 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2390 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2396 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2402 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2409 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2412 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2413 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2414 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2415 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2420 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2426 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2433 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2436 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2437 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2441 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2444 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2445 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2446 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2447 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2448 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2452 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2455 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2457 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2462 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2465 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2472 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2473 right thing. Closes: #150644
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2477 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Stupid, evil typo.
2480 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2491 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2494 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2495 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2500 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2509 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2513 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2516 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2517 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2525 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2529 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2535 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2538 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2539 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2549 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Removing perl warning message.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2558 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2559 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2560 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2561 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2562 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2563 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2564 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2565 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2569 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2575 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2582 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2585 debconf-mergetemplate.
2586 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2587 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2591 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2594 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2595 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2596 dh_install, which ...
2597 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2598 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2599 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2600 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2601 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2602 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2603 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2604 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2605 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2606 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2607 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2608 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2609 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2610 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2611 other minor changes.
2612 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2613 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2614 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2615 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2616 course there's -X ..)
2617 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2618 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2619 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2621 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2622 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2623 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2624 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2625 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2630 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2636 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2639 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2643 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2649 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2655 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2661 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2667 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2670 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2671 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2672 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2673 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2675 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2676 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2680 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2686 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2689 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2693 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2696 upset. Closes: #131322
2698 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2700 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2703 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2704 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2705 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2706 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2707 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2708 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2709 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2710 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2711 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2712 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2713 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2714 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2715 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2716 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2717 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2719 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2723 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2726 - Better indenting of generated code.
2727 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2731 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2735 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2736 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2737 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2738 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2739 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2740 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2741 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2745 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2748 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2752 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2755 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2756 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2757 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2758 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2759 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2760 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2761 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2762 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2763 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2764 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2765 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2766 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2767 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2768 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2769 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2774 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2780 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2783 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2784 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2788 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2791 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2792 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2796 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2802 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2805 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2806 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2807 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2808 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2809 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2814 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2820 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2823 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2827 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2830 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2835 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2841 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2844 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2848 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2854 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2858 Also some indentation fixes.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2862 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2865 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2866 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2867 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2868 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2869 Closes: #106514, #85520
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2873 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2879 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2885 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2891 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2897 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2903 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2906 change it in debhelper v4..
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2910 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2916 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2919 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2923 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2926 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2930 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2936 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2939 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2940 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2941 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2942 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2943 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2944 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2945 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2946 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2947 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2948 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2949 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2950 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2954 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2957 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2961 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2968 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2971 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2972 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2973 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2974 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2975 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2976 program those options go to. So, for example,
2977 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2978 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2979 something complex. Closes: #89311
2980 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2984 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2987 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2988 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2989 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2993 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2996 through loop. Closes: #98598
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3000 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * Missing semi-colon.
3003 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3004 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3008 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3011 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3012 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3013 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3017 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3020 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3021 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3025 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3028 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3032 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3035 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3036 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3040 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3043 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3044 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3045 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3049 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3052 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3053 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3054 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3058 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3061 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3065 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3071 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3077 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3083 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3089 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3092 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3096 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3099 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3100 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3101 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3102 followed. Closes: #85483
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3106 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3108 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3109 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3110 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3114 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3117 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3118 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3119 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3120 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3121 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3122 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3123 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3124 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3125 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3126 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3127 Closes: #88464, #77743
3128 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3129 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3130 us to deal with that gracefully.
3131 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3133 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3134 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3135 a while, Closes: #51225
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3139 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3145 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3148 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3152 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3156 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3161 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3164 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3165 don't make packlist files.
3166 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3167 debhelper coding standards.
3168 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3169 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3173 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3176 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3180 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3183 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3184 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3185 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3186 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3187 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3188 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3189 but is mildly deprecated.
3190 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3191 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3192 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3193 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3194 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3195 switching to statoverrides..
3196 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3197 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3198 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3199 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3200 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3201 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3203 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3204 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3205 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3206 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3207 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3208 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3209 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3210 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3211 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3213 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3214 variable names, pod man pages).
3215 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3216 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3217 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3218 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3219 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3220 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3221 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3225 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3231 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3238 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3241 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3245 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3247 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3248 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3249 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3253 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3255 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3256 they were previously ignored.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3260 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3262 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3263 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3267 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3269 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3270 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3271 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3275 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3277 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3281 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3283 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3284 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3288 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3290 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3291 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3292 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3293 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3294 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3295 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3296 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3297 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3298 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3299 it is an obsolete program.
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3303 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3305 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3309 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3313 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3315 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3319 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3321 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3323 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3325 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3329 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3335 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * typo: Closes, #78567
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3341 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3347 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3353 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3356 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3357 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3358 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3359 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3360 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3364 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3367 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3372 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3375 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3376 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3377 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3378 backwards-compatability.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3382 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3385 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3386 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3387 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3388 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3389 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3390 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3392 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3393 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3394 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3396 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3398 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3399 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3400 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3401 should now be raised to severity important..
3402 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3403 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3407 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3410 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3415 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3421 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3427 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3433 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3440 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3443 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3444 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3445 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3446 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3450 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3456 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3459 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3460 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3461 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3462 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3463 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3464 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3469 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3472 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3476 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3482 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3485 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3490 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3493 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3494 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3495 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3496 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3500 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3504 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3507 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3510 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3511 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3514 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3516 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3517 the TODO entry about it.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3521 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3528 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3531 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3532 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3536 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3539 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3540 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3541 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3542 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3546 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3552 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3559 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3562 (this appears to be logal).
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3566 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3569 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3570 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3571 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3572 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3576 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3582 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3585 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3586 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3587 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3588 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3592 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3598 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3601 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3605 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3612 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3615 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3616 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3617 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3622 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3629 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3635 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3638 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3639 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3640 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3641 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3642 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3643 notice until v2 is complete.
3644 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3645 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3646 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3647 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3648 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3649 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3651 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3652 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3653 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3654 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3658 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3664 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3671 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3674 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3678 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3685 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3688 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3689 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3690 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3691 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3696 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3699 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3700 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3701 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3706 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3709 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3710 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3714 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3717 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3721 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3724 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3728 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3735 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3738 depend on the build and install targets.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3742 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3745 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3749 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3756 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3762 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3768 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3771 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3772 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3773 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3774 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3775 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3776 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3778 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3779 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3780 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3781 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3782 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3783 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3784 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3788 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3794 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3800 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3803 right place. Closes: #55065
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3807 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3814 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3817 * Copyright date updates.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3821 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3824 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3829 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3835 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3842 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3848 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3854 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3860 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3863 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3864 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3865 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3866 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3867 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3868 bits until all files have been registered.
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3872 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * dh_installmanpages:
3875 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3876 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3877 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3878 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3879 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3880 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3881 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3882 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3883 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3884 otherwise change the result at all.
3886 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3887 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3888 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3889 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3890 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3895 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3901 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3904 act on files that don't exist.
3905 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3906 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3907 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3909 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3910 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3911 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3912 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3916 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3922 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3928 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3931 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3935 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3938 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3940 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3941 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3942 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3946 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3949 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3950 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3951 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3952 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3953 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3954 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3955 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3957 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3959 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3963 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3970 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3976 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3985 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3989 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3995 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4001 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4004 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4005 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4006 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4007 I made some changes, though:
4008 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4009 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4010 that is a clear violation of policy.
4011 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4012 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4013 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4014 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4015 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4016 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4017 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4018 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4019 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4021 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4025 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4031 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4034 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4041 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4042 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4047 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4053 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4063 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4064 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4065 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4066 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4067 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4068 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4069 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4073 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4079 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4083 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4084 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4097 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4104 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4105 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4109 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4111 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4116 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4120 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4124 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4127 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4128 for the dependancies to be generated.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4132 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4135 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4139 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4142 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4143 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4144 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4149 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4152 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4153 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4157 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4163 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4169 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4172 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4182 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4185 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4186 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4187 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4188 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4189 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4190 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4191 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4192 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4193 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4194 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4195 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4196 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4203 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4204 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4206 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4207 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4208 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4209 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4210 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4211 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4213 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4214 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4221 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4235 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4240 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4243 for building debhelper.
4244 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4258 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4265 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4266 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4267 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4268 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4269 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4270 it's always available.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4274 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4277 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4278 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4279 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4286 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4287 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4291 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4297 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4300 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4304 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4313 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4314 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4315 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4319 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4322 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4327 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4330 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4331 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4333 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4334 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4338 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4344 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4350 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4353 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4357 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4360 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4361 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4363 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4370 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4371 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4372 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4379 things if CDPATH is set.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4392 seems to make sense for the transition.
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4396 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4399 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4404 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4407 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4408 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4412 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4415 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4419 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4422 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4423 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4424 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4425 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4429 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4435 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4438 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4439 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4440 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4441 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4442 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4443 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4444 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4445 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4446 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4447 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4452 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4455 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4456 * README: mention doc/v2
4457 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4458 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4462 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4464 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4465 be using this script RSN.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4469 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4472 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4473 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4474 more than 1 init script.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4478 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4481 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4485 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Changed perl version detection.
4488 * Changed call to find.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4492 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4495 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4497 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4502 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * Really include dh_installpam.
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4508 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4511 * Wrote man page for same.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4515 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4518 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4519 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4524 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4531 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4534 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4535 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4536 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4537 x bit was being set!
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4541 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4544 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4545 well. (Closes: 38900)
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4549 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4552 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4553 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4557 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4563 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4570 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4576 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4579 help from Julian Gilbey.
4580 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4581 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4582 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4583 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4584 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4585 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4586 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4591 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4597 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4604 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4610 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4616 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4619 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4623 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4626 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4630 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4633 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4637 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4643 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4646 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4650 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4656 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4662 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4665 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4666 may be deleted. (#35845)
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4670 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * Various man page enhancements.
4673 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4678 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4681 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4682 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4686 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4689 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4690 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4691 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4693 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4694 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4699 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4705 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * Another very minor typo fix.
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4711 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * Very minor typo fix.
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4717 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4720 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4721 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4725 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4731 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4734 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4735 variables properly (#34850).
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4739 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4745 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4748 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4749 (automatically generated by build process).
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4753 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4755 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4759 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4762 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4763 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4765 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4769 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4772 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4776 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * README: minor typo fix.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4782 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4785 leave it at that. :-)
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4789 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4795 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4801 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4804 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4805 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4806 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4810 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4813 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4817 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4820 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4824 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4827 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4828 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4829 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4830 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4834 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4837 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4838 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4839 Craig Small for spotting this.
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4843 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4846 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4847 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4851 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4857 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4860 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4864 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4866 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4867 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4868 working on the last version of debhelper.
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4872 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4875 being made. (#23255)
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4879 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4885 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4888 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4892 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4895 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4896 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4897 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4898 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4902 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4905 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4906 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4907 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4908 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4910 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4911 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4913 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4918 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4924 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4930 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4933 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4934 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4935 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4936 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4937 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4938 suidregister actually supports it.
4939 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4940 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4944 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4951 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4954 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4955 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4956 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4957 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4958 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4959 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4960 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4964 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4966 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4967 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4971 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4974 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4975 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4976 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4977 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4981 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4984 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4986 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4987 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4988 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4989 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4990 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4991 effect, either. (#30118)
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4995 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5001 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5004 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5005 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5009 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5015 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5018 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5019 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5020 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5021 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5025 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5028 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5029 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5033 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5039 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5042 packages, painlessly.
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5046 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5052 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5058 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5064 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * The perl conversion is complete.
5068 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5070 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5071 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5072 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5077 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5080 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5081 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5082 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5086 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5089 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5091 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5093 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5094 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5098 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5101 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5102 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5106 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5112 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5115 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5116 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5117 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5118 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5119 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5123 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5126 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5127 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5128 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5129 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5133 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5136 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5140 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5143 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5144 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5145 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5146 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5147 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5148 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5149 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5150 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5154 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5160 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5163 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5164 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5165 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5170 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5173 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5177 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5180 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5184 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5187 sections of shared libraries.
5188 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5189 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5190 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5191 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5192 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5193 things you don't want them to.
5194 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5195 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5199 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5202 shared libraries. (#26414)
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5206 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5208 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5209 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5210 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5211 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5215 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5219 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5221 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5222 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5223 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5224 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5225 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5229 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5232 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5236 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5239 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5240 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5245 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5248 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5252 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5255 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5256 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5257 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5258 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5259 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5261 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5262 remove debian/files properly.
5263 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5264 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5265 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5266 * Removed bogus menu file.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5270 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5273 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5277 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5280 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5281 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5282 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5283 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5284 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5285 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5289 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5292 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5293 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5294 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5295 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5299 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5306 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5309 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5310 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5312 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5313 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5314 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5315 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5316 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5317 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5321 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5324 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5325 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5326 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5327 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5328 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5329 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5330 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5331 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5332 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5333 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5334 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5335 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5336 passed any switches.
5337 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5341 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5344 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5345 at all for a long while.
5346 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5347 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5348 large chunks in the process.
5349 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5350 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5351 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5356 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5359 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5361 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5366 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5369 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5370 that don't always have the same files in them.
5371 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5372 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5373 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5377 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5381 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5382 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5383 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5384 updating 27 man pages.
5385 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5386 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5387 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5388 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5389 programs act on. (#25247)
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5393 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5397 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5398 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5399 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5400 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5401 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5402 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5407 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5414 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5421 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5424 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5428 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5434 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5437 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5438 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5439 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5440 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5441 package by accident.
5442 * Is version 1.0 next?
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5446 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5449 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5450 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5454 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5457 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5458 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5459 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5460 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5461 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5463 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5468 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5471 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5472 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5476 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5479 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5483 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5486 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5487 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5492 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5498 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5500 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5501 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5502 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5507 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5513 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5516 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5517 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5518 past week. Thanks, guys!
5520 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5521 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5522 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5523 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5524 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5525 would do in the same situation.
5526 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5527 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5529 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5531 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5532 permissions changed.
5533 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5534 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5535 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5536 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5537 files are treated identically.
5538 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5539 * Minor man page fixes.
5540 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5541 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5542 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5546 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5549 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5550 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5551 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5552 use -X multiple times, too.
5553 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5554 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5558 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5561 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5562 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5566 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5569 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5573 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5576 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5577 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5578 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5579 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5580 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5581 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5582 shape if you're starting a new package.
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5586 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5589 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5593 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5596 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5597 because of missing symlinks.
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5601 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5607 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5610 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5611 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5612 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5613 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5614 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5616 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5617 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5621 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5623 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5624 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5625 to be changed after the fact :-)
5626 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5630 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5632 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5633 no version string after the -V.
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5637 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5639 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5640 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5645 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5648 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5652 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5655 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5656 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5657 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5658 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5659 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5660 I always welcome corrections!
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5664 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5670 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5673 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5674 * Documented this new switch.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5678 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5681 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5682 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5683 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5684 no packages use the old behavior.
5686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5688 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5690 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5691 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5692 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5696 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5699 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5703 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5709 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5712 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5716 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5719 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5720 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5721 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5725 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5731 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5734 into the source package by accident.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5738 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5741 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5742 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5743 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5744 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5745 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5746 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5751 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5755 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5756 inspired to implement some of it.
5757 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5761 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5764 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5768 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5771 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5772 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5776 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5779 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5780 have done.) (#17598)
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5784 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5790 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5796 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5799 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5803 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5806 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5807 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5811 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5814 argument processor in perl.
5815 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5816 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5817 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5818 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5822 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5825 type directories. (#16933)
5826 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5827 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5828 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5829 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5830 are supported. (#16935)
5831 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5836 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5839 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5843 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5847 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5848 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5849 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5850 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5851 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5852 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5856 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5859 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5860 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5862 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5863 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5864 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5865 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5866 a given package, or -i or -a.
5867 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5868 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5869 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5870 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5871 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5872 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5873 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5874 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5875 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5877 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5878 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5879 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5883 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5885 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5886 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5887 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5892 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5895 does not have a section.
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5899 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5902 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5903 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5904 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5908 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5910 * Fixed typo #16215.
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5914 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5917 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5918 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5919 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5920 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5921 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5926 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5929 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5930 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5931 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5936 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5942 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5944 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5948 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5951 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5952 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5953 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5954 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5955 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5956 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5960 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5962 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5966 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5969 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5973 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5976 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5977 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5978 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5982 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5985 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5989 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5995 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5998 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6002 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6005 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6009 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6015 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6018 postinst, postrm, etc.
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6022 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6028 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6031 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6032 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6033 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6034 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6035 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6039 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6042 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6043 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6047 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6050 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6054 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6057 installing package files into.
6058 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6063 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6065 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6067 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6071 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6077 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6079 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6080 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6084 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6086 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6087 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6088 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6089 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6090 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6094 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6096 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6097 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6098 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6099 multiple binary packages.
6100 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6101 should rebuild them with this version.
6102 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6106 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6108 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6109 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6113 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6116 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6120 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6123 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6124 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6125 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6126 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6127 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6128 debian/README.debian.
6129 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6130 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6131 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6132 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6133 in a few situations.)
6135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6137 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6139 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6143 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6145 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6149 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6152 * Fixed several man pages.
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6156 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6159 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6160 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6164 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6166 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6167 is ready for general use.
6168 * Added man pages for all commands.
6169 * Multiple binary package support.
6170 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6171 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6172 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6174 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6175 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6176 auto-installed as parameters.
6177 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6179 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6182 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6183 the package build directory it is to act on.
6184 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6185 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6186 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6190 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6192 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6193 ready to replace debstd.
6195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400