1 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
3 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
7 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
9 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
10 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
11 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
12 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
13 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
14 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
15 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
16 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
17 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
18 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
19 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
23 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
25 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
26 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
28 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
29 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
30 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
31 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
33 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
34 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
38 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
40 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
41 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
42 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
43 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
44 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
45 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
46 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
48 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
49 that uses them. Affected options are:
50 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
51 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
52 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
53 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
54 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
55 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
56 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
57 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
58 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
59 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
60 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
61 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
65 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
72 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
78 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
80 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
81 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
83 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
84 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
85 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
86 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
87 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
89 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
91 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
92 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
93 rules (see bug #509756).
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
97 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
103 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
104 * Typo. Closes: #493062
105 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
106 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
110 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
113 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
114 empty files. Closes: #490937
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
118 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
120 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
124 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
131 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
134 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
135 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
136 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
137 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
142 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
144 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
145 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
146 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
147 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
151 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
154 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
155 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
156 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
157 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
158 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
162 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
169 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
171 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
172 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
173 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
174 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
175 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
176 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
177 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
178 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
179 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
180 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
184 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
187 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
188 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
189 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
190 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
192 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
193 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
194 breaking backwards compatability.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
198 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
201 message in perl 5.10.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
205 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
211 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Convert copyright file to new format.
214 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
218 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
221 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
225 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
228 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
229 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
230 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
231 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
232 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
233 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
234 logging by dh_listpackages.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
238 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
241 run and there are no packages of that type.
242 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
243 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
244 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
245 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
247 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
248 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
252 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
254 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
255 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
256 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
260 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
263 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
264 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
266 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
267 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
268 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
269 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
270 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
271 planned but not yet implemented.)
272 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
273 if the Makefile has such a target.
274 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
275 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
276 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
277 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
278 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
279 but not yet implemented.)
280 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
281 recommended default, especially when using dh.
282 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
283 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
284 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
286 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
288 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
289 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
291 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
292 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
293 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
298 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
301 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
302 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
306 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
308 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
309 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
310 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
314 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
320 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
326 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
329 just those installed by the program.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
333 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
336 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
337 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
341 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
344 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
345 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
346 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
347 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
351 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
354 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
355 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
359 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
362 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
363 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
367 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
370 with policy. Closes: #461392
371 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
372 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
373 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
374 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
375 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
379 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
382 Closes: #460340, #460351
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
386 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
389 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
390 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
391 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
392 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
396 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
399 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
400 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
401 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
402 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
403 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
404 package build directory won't work.
405 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
406 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
407 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
408 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
409 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
410 mode. Closes: #459426
411 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
416 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
419 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
423 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
427 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
428 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
429 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
430 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
431 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
432 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
436 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
439 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
440 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
441 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
442 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
446 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
449 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
450 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
451 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
452 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
453 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
457 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
460 debian/package.triggers files.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
464 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
467 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
471 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
474 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
475 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
476 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
477 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
482 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
485 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
489 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
492 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
493 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
495 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
500 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
504 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
505 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
506 * Typo. Closes: #441272
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
510 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
517 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
524 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
527 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
529 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
530 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
531 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
533 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
534 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
535 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
539 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
542 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
543 * Update urls to web page.
544 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
546 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
547 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
551 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
554 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
555 - typo in alternatives call
556 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
558 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
559 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
563 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
566 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
571 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
577 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
583 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
586 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
588 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
589 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
590 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
591 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
592 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
593 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
594 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
595 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
596 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
597 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
598 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
602 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
605 package install. Closes: #415717
606 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
607 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
608 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
609 script and then remove the python files.
610 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
611 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
612 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
613 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
614 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
615 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
616 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
617 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
618 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
619 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
620 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
621 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
622 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
626 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Correct typo in french translation
632 * Typo. Closes: #400571
633 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
635 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
637 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
638 Closes: #406921, #381940
639 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
641 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
642 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
643 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
644 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
645 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
646 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
647 specified). Closes: #381851
648 * Misc minor changes.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
652 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
659 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
660 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
664 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
670 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
671 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
674 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
675 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
677 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
678 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
679 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
680 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
684 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
687 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
690 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
694 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
700 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
706 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
707 a difficult situation.
708 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
709 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
710 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
711 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
712 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
713 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
714 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
715 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
716 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
717 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
721 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Non-maintainer upload.
724 * Update of dh_python
725 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
726 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
728 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
729 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
730 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
731 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
732 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
734 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
736 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Non-maintainer upload.
739 * Update of dh_python
740 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
741 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
742 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
743 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
744 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
745 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
746 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
747 specific python version. Closes: #373853
748 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
749 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
751 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
752 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
753 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
754 the not too-distant future).
755 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
756 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
757 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
758 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
759 thus made the build fail.
761 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
763 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Non-maintainer upload.
766 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
768 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
770 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
773 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
774 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
775 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
776 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
777 package. Closes: #301424
778 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
779 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
780 fonts). Closes: #372686
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
784 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
790 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
791 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
792 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
793 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
794 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
795 above, but already depends on that.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
799 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
802 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
803 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
804 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
805 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
806 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
810 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
816 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
822 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
823 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
827 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
830 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
834 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
838 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
839 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
840 new version (0.24.1).
841 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
842 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
845 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
846 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
847 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
848 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
849 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
850 new directory on their own.
851 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
852 * Fix broken directory removal code.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
856 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
859 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
860 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
861 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
862 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
866 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
869 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
870 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
871 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
872 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
873 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
877 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
883 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Typo. Closes: #358904
887 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
888 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
892 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
893 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
897 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
899 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
900 || exit 0 instead of the intended
902 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
903 ignored. Closes: #337664
905 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
910 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
916 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
921 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
922 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
923 the dh_installdebconf manpage
924 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
925 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
926 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
927 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
931 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
934 version. Closes: #350607
935 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
936 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
937 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
938 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
942 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
945 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
946 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
947 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
951 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
958 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Minor bug fix from last release.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
964 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
967 language guessing. Closes: #193221
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
971 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
974 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
975 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
976 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
977 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
978 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
979 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
983 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
986 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
987 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
992 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
995 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
999 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1002 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1006 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1009 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1010 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1011 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1012 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1013 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1014 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1018 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1022 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1023 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1024 link. Closes: #346405
1025 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1027 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1028 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1029 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1030 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1031 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1032 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1033 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1037 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1044 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1050 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1053 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1057 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1060 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1065 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1069 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1070 installed. Closes: #342033
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1074 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1077 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1078 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1079 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1084 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1090 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1096 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1100 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1101 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1102 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1106 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1109 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1114 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1121 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1127 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1130 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1131 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1132 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1133 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1134 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1135 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1136 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1138 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1142 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1145 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1146 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1150 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1153 in standard man dirs.
1154 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1158 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1164 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1167 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1172 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1179 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1186 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1189 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1190 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1194 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1197 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1198 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1199 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1201 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1203 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1209 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1215 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1218 mode. Closes: #324161
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1222 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1225 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1226 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1227 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1228 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1233 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1236 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1237 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1238 is necesary for sanity.
1239 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1240 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1245 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1247 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1248 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1252 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1255 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1259 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1265 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1268 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1269 released, so use at your own risk.
1270 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1271 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1273 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1274 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1275 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1276 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1277 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1278 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1279 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1280 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1281 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1282 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1283 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1284 including twice per config file line now..
1285 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1286 and simplfy the rules file.
1287 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1288 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1289 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1291 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1292 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1296 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1299 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1303 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1306 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1310 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1313 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1317 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1320 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1321 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1322 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1323 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1324 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1325 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1329 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1332 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1333 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1334 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1339 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1342 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1343 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1348 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1351 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1352 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1353 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1358 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1361 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1362 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1363 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1367 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1373 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1380 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1383 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1384 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1385 unknown. Closes: #282924
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1389 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1396 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Spanish man page updates.
1399 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1404 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1410 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1413 * dh_desktop: reindent
1414 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1415 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1419 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1425 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1427 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1431 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1433 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1437 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1440 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1441 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1445 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1451 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1457 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1464 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1467 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1471 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1474 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1475 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1476 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1477 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1478 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1479 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1481 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1482 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1483 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1484 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1485 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1486 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1487 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1488 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1489 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1490 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1491 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1492 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1493 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1494 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1495 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1496 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1500 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1507 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1510 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1514 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1517 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1521 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1524 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1528 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1531 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1535 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1541 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1547 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1553 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1556 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1557 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1558 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1562 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1565 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1569 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1572 but occasionally right and necessary.
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1576 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1579 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1580 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1581 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1582 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1583 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1587 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1590 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1592 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1593 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1594 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1595 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1596 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1597 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1598 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1599 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1600 postinst scripts for udebs.
1601 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1605 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1608 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1610 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1611 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1615 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1621 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1628 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1635 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1638 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1642 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1645 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1649 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1652 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1655 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1656 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1660 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1666 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1669 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1673 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1676 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1677 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1678 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1680 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1682 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1683 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1684 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1688 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1691 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1696 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1699 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1700 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1701 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1706 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1712 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1718 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1721 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1722 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1723 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1724 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1725 associated -dbg packages.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1729 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1732 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1736 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1739 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1743 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1746 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1750 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1753 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1758 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1761 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1765 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1768 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1773 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1776 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1780 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1784 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1785 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1786 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1787 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1788 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1789 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1790 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1791 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1792 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1793 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1797 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1800 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1805 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1808 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1809 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1813 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1816 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1817 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1822 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1825 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1829 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1832 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1836 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1839 out section number. Closes: #204731
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1850 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1856 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1865 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1866 removal. Closes: #204286
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1870 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1873 renaming. Closes: #203548
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1877 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1880 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1881 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1885 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1891 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1897 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1903 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1906 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1907 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1908 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1912 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1915 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1916 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1920 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1926 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1936 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1941 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1944 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1948 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1951 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1953 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1954 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1958 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1961 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1969 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1979 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1981 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1985 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1988 it break hard links (see #188663).
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1995 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1999 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2005 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2009 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2010 debconf-mergetemplates
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2014 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2017 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2021 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2024 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2028 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2031 * Update debhelper(1).
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2035 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2038 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2039 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2040 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2041 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2042 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2046 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2049 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2050 the shell. Closes: #178524
2051 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2055 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2058 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2062 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2065 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2069 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2072 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2073 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2074 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2075 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2080 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2083 files from installation.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2087 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2090 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2091 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2095 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2098 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2102 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2105 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2109 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2115 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2121 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2125 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2126 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2128 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2132 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2135 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2136 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2137 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2138 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2142 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2145 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2149 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2152 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2153 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2157 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2161 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2166 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2172 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2176 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2177 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2178 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2183 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2186 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2187 practice. Closes: #163303
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2204 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2207 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2209 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2210 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2211 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2212 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2213 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2217 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2220 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2225 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2231 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2241 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2246 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2252 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2258 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2264 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2271 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2274 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2275 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2276 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2277 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2298 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2299 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2303 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2306 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2307 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2308 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2309 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2310 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2317 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2319 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2324 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2327 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2331 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2334 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2335 right thing. Closes: #150644
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2339 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Stupid, evil typo.
2342 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2353 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2356 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2357 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2371 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2375 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2378 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2379 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2387 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2400 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2401 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2405 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2411 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Removing perl warning message.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2417 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2420 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2421 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2422 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2423 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2424 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2425 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2426 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2427 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2447 debconf-mergetemplate.
2448 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2449 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2453 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2456 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2457 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2458 dh_install, which ...
2459 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2460 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2461 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2462 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2463 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2464 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2465 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2466 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2467 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2468 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2469 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2470 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2471 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2472 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2473 other minor changes.
2474 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2475 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2476 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2477 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2478 course there's -X ..)
2479 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2480 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2481 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2483 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2484 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2485 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2486 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2487 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2492 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2498 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2501 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2505 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2511 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2517 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2523 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2529 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2532 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2533 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2534 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2535 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2537 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2538 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2542 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2548 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2551 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2555 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2558 upset. Closes: #131322
2560 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2562 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2565 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2566 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2567 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2568 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2569 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2570 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2571 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2572 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2573 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2574 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2575 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2576 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2577 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2578 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2579 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2581 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2585 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2588 - Better indenting of generated code.
2589 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2593 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2597 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2598 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2599 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2600 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2601 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2602 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2603 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2607 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2610 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2614 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2617 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2618 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2619 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2620 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2621 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2622 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2623 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2624 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2625 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2626 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2627 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2628 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2629 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2630 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2631 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2636 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2642 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2645 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2646 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2650 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2653 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2654 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2658 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2664 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2667 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2668 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2669 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2670 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2671 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2676 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2682 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2685 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2689 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2692 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2697 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2703 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2706 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2710 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2716 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2720 Also some indentation fixes.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2724 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2727 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2728 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2729 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2730 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2731 Closes: #106514, #85520
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2735 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2741 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2747 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2753 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2759 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2765 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2768 change it in debhelper v4..
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2772 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2778 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2781 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2785 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2788 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2792 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2798 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2801 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2802 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2803 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2804 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2805 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2806 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2807 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2808 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2809 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2810 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2811 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2812 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2816 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2819 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2823 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2830 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2833 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2834 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2835 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2836 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2837 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2838 program those options go to. So, for example,
2839 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2840 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2841 something complex. Closes: #89311
2842 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2846 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2849 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2850 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2851 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2855 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2858 through loop. Closes: #98598
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2862 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Missing semi-colon.
2865 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2866 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2870 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2873 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2874 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2875 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2879 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2882 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2883 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2887 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2890 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2894 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2897 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2898 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2902 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2905 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2906 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2907 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2911 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2914 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2915 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2916 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2920 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2923 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2927 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2933 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2939 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2945 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2951 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2954 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2958 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2961 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2962 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2963 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2964 followed. Closes: #85483
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2968 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2970 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2971 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2972 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2976 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2979 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2980 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2981 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2982 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2983 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2984 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2985 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2986 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2987 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2988 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2989 Closes: #88464, #77743
2990 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2991 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2992 us to deal with that gracefully.
2993 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2995 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2996 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2997 a while, Closes: #51225
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3001 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3007 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3010 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3014 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3018 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3023 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3026 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3027 don't make packlist files.
3028 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3029 debhelper coding standards.
3030 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3031 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3035 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3038 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3042 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3045 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3046 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3047 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3048 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3049 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3050 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3051 but is mildly deprecated.
3052 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3053 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3054 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3055 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3056 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3057 switching to statoverrides..
3058 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3059 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3060 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3061 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3062 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3063 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3065 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3066 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3067 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3068 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3069 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3070 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3071 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3072 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3073 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3075 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3076 variable names, pod man pages).
3077 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3078 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3079 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3080 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3081 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3082 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3083 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3087 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3093 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3100 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3103 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3107 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3109 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3110 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3111 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3115 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3117 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3118 they were previously ignored.
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3122 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3124 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3125 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3129 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3131 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3132 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3133 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3137 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3139 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3143 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3145 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3146 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3150 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3152 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3153 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3154 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3155 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3156 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3157 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3158 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3159 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3160 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3161 it is an obsolete program.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3165 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3167 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3171 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3175 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3177 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3181 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3183 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3185 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3187 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3191 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3197 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * typo: Closes, #78567
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3203 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3209 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3215 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3218 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3219 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3220 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3221 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3222 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3226 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3229 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3234 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3237 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3238 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3239 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3240 backwards-compatability.
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3244 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3247 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3248 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3249 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3250 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3251 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3252 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3254 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3255 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3256 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3258 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3260 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3261 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3262 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3263 should now be raised to severity important..
3264 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3265 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3269 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3272 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3277 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3283 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3289 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3295 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3302 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3305 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3306 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3307 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3308 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3312 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3318 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3321 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3322 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3323 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3324 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3325 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3326 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3331 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3334 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3338 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3344 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3347 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3352 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3355 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3356 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3357 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3358 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3362 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3366 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3369 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3372 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3373 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3376 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3378 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3379 the TODO entry about it.
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3383 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3390 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3393 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3394 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3398 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3401 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3402 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3403 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3404 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3408 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3414 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3421 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3424 (this appears to be logal).
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3428 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3431 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3432 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3433 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3434 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3438 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3444 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3447 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3448 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3449 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3450 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3454 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3460 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3463 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3467 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3474 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3477 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3478 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3479 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3484 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3491 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3497 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3500 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3501 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3502 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3503 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3504 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3505 notice until v2 is complete.
3506 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3507 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3508 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3509 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3510 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3511 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3513 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3514 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3515 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3516 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3520 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3526 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3533 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3536 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3540 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3547 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3550 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3551 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3552 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3553 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3558 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3561 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3562 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3563 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3568 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3571 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3572 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3576 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3579 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3583 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3586 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3590 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3597 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3600 depend on the build and install targets.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3604 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3607 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3611 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3618 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3624 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3630 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3633 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3634 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3635 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3636 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3637 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3638 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3640 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3641 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3642 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3643 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3644 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3645 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3646 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3650 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3656 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3662 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3665 right place. Closes: #55065
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3669 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3676 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3679 * Copyright date updates.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3683 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3686 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3691 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3697 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3704 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3710 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3716 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3722 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3725 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3726 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3727 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3728 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3729 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3730 bits until all files have been registered.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3734 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_installmanpages:
3737 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3738 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3739 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3740 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3741 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3742 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3743 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3744 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3745 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3746 otherwise change the result at all.
3748 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3749 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3750 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3751 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3752 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3757 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3763 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3766 act on files that don't exist.
3767 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3768 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3769 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3771 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3772 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3773 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3774 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3778 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3784 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3790 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3793 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3797 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3800 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3802 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3803 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3804 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3808 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3811 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3812 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3813 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3814 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3815 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3816 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3817 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3819 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3821 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3825 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3832 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3838 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3844 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3847 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3851 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3857 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3863 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3866 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3867 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3868 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3869 I made some changes, though:
3870 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3871 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3872 that is a clear violation of policy.
3873 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3874 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3875 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3876 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3877 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3878 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3879 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3880 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3881 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3883 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3887 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3893 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3896 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3900 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3903 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3904 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3909 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3915 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3922 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3925 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3926 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3927 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3928 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3929 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3930 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3931 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3935 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3941 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3945 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3946 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3950 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3959 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3963 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3966 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3967 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3971 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3973 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3978 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3982 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3986 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3989 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3990 for the dependancies to be generated.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3994 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3997 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4001 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4004 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4005 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4006 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4011 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4014 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4015 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4019 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4025 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4031 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4034 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4044 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4047 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4048 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4049 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4050 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4051 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4052 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4053 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4054 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4055 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4056 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4057 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4058 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4065 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4066 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4068 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4069 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4070 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4071 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4072 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4073 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4075 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4076 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4080 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4083 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4087 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4097 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4102 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4105 for building debhelper.
4106 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4117 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4120 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4124 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4127 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4128 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4129 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4130 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4131 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4132 it's always available.
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4139 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4140 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4141 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4145 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4148 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4149 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4159 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4162 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4166 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4172 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4175 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4176 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4177 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4184 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4189 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4192 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4193 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4195 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4196 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4215 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4222 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4223 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4225 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4232 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4233 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4234 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4238 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4241 things if CDPATH is set.
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4245 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4251 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4254 seems to make sense for the transition.
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4258 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4261 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4266 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4269 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4270 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4274 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4277 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4281 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4284 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4285 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4286 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4287 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4291 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4297 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4300 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4301 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4302 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4303 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4304 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4305 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4306 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4307 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4308 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4309 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4314 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4317 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4318 * README: mention doc/v2
4319 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4320 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4324 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4326 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4327 be using this script RSN.
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4331 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4334 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4335 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4336 more than 1 init script.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4340 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4343 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4347 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * Changed perl version detection.
4350 * Changed call to find.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4354 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4357 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4359 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4364 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * Really include dh_installpam.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4370 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4373 * Wrote man page for same.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4377 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4380 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4381 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4386 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4393 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4396 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4397 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4398 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4399 x bit was being set!
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4403 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4406 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4407 well. (Closes: 38900)
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4411 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4414 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4415 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4419 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4425 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4432 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4438 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4441 help from Julian Gilbey.
4442 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4443 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4444 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4445 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4446 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4447 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4448 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4453 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4459 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4466 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4472 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4478 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4481 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4485 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4488 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4492 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4495 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4499 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4505 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4508 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4512 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4518 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4524 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4527 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4528 may be deleted. (#35845)
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4532 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * Various man page enhancements.
4535 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4540 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4543 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4544 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4548 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4551 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4552 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4553 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4555 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4556 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4561 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4567 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Another very minor typo fix.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4573 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Very minor typo fix.
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4579 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4582 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4583 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4587 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4593 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4596 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4597 variables properly (#34850).
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4601 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4607 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4610 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4611 (automatically generated by build process).
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4615 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4617 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4621 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4624 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4625 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4627 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4631 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4634 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4638 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * README: minor typo fix.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4644 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4647 leave it at that. :-)
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4651 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4657 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4663 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4666 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4667 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4668 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4672 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4675 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4679 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4682 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4686 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4689 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4690 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4691 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4692 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4696 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4699 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4700 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4701 Craig Small for spotting this.
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4705 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4708 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4709 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4713 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4719 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4722 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4726 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4728 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4729 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4730 working on the last version of debhelper.
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4734 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4737 being made. (#23255)
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4741 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4747 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4750 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4754 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4757 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4758 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4759 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4760 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4764 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4767 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4768 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4769 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4770 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4772 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4773 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4775 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4780 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4786 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4792 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4795 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4796 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4797 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4798 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4799 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4800 suidregister actually supports it.
4801 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4802 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4806 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4813 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4816 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4817 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4818 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4819 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4820 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4821 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4822 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4826 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4828 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4829 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4833 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4836 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4837 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4838 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4839 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4843 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4846 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4848 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4849 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4850 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4851 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4852 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4853 effect, either. (#30118)
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4857 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4863 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4866 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4867 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4871 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4877 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4880 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4881 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4882 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4883 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4887 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4890 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4891 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4895 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4901 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4904 packages, painlessly.
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4908 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4914 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4920 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4926 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * The perl conversion is complete.
4930 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4932 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4933 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4934 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4939 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4942 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4943 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4944 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4948 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4951 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4953 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4955 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4956 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4960 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4963 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4964 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4968 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4974 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4977 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4978 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4979 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4980 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4981 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4985 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4988 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4989 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4990 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4991 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4995 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4998 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5002 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5005 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5006 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5007 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5008 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5009 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5010 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5011 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5012 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5016 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5022 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5025 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5026 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5027 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5032 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5035 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5039 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5042 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5046 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5049 sections of shared libraries.
5050 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5051 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5052 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5053 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5054 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5055 things you don't want them to.
5056 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5057 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5061 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5064 shared libraries. (#26414)
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5070 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5071 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5072 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5073 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5077 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5081 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5083 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5084 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5085 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5086 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5087 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5091 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5094 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5098 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5101 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5102 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5107 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5110 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5114 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5117 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5118 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5119 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5120 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5121 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5123 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5124 remove debian/files properly.
5125 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5126 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5127 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5128 * Removed bogus menu file.
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5132 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5135 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5139 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5142 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5143 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5144 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5145 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5146 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5147 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5151 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5154 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5155 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5156 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5157 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5161 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5168 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5171 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5172 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5174 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5175 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5176 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5177 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5178 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5179 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5183 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5186 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5187 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5188 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5189 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5190 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5191 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5192 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5193 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5194 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5195 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5196 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5197 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5198 passed any switches.
5199 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5206 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5207 at all for a long while.
5208 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5209 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5210 large chunks in the process.
5211 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5212 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5213 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5218 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5221 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5223 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5228 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5231 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5232 that don't always have the same files in them.
5233 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5234 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5235 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5239 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5243 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5244 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5245 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5246 updating 27 man pages.
5247 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5248 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5249 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5250 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5251 programs act on. (#25247)
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5255 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5259 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5260 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5261 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5262 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5263 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5264 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5269 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5276 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5283 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5286 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5290 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5296 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5299 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5300 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5301 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5302 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5303 package by accident.
5304 * Is version 1.0 next?
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5308 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5311 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5312 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5316 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5319 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5320 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5321 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5322 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5323 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5325 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5330 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5333 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5334 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5338 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5341 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5345 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5348 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5349 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5354 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5360 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5363 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5364 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5369 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5375 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5378 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5379 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5380 past week. Thanks, guys!
5382 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5383 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5384 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5385 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5386 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5387 would do in the same situation.
5388 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5389 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5391 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5393 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5394 permissions changed.
5395 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5396 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5397 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5398 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5399 files are treated identically.
5400 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5401 * Minor man page fixes.
5402 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5403 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5404 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5408 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5411 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5412 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5413 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5414 use -X multiple times, too.
5415 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5416 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5420 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5423 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5424 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5428 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5431 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5435 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5438 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5439 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5440 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5441 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5442 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5443 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5444 shape if you're starting a new package.
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5448 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5451 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5455 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5458 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5459 because of missing symlinks.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5463 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5469 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5472 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5473 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5474 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5475 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5476 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5478 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5479 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5483 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5485 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5486 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5487 to be changed after the fact :-)
5488 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5492 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5494 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5495 no version string after the -V.
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5499 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5501 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5502 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5507 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5510 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5514 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5517 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5518 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5519 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5520 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5521 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5522 I always welcome corrections!
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5526 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5532 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5535 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5536 * Documented this new switch.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5540 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5543 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5544 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5545 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5546 no packages use the old behavior.
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5550 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5553 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5554 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5558 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5561 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5565 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5571 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5574 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5578 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5581 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5582 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5583 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5587 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5593 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5596 into the source package by accident.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5600 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5603 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5604 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5605 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5606 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5607 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5608 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5613 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5617 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5618 inspired to implement some of it.
5619 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5623 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5625 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5626 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5630 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5632 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5633 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5634 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5638 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5641 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5642 have done.) (#17598)
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5646 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5652 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5658 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5661 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5665 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5668 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5669 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5673 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5676 argument processor in perl.
5677 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5678 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5679 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5680 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5684 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5687 type directories. (#16933)
5688 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5689 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5690 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5691 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5692 are supported. (#16935)
5693 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5698 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5701 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5705 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5709 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5710 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5711 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5712 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5713 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5714 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5718 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5721 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5722 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5724 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5725 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5726 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5727 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5728 a given package, or -i or -a.
5729 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5730 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5731 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5732 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5733 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5734 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5735 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5736 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5737 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5739 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5740 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5741 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5745 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5748 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5749 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5754 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5757 does not have a section.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5761 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5764 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5765 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5766 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5770 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * Fixed typo #16215.
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5776 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5779 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5780 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5781 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5782 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5783 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5788 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5791 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5792 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5793 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5798 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5804 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5810 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5813 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5814 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5815 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5816 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5817 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5818 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5822 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5828 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5831 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5835 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5838 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5839 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5840 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5844 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5847 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5851 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5857 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5860 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5864 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5867 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5871 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5877 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5880 postinst, postrm, etc.
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5884 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5890 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5893 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5894 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5895 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5896 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5897 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5901 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5904 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5905 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5909 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5912 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5916 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5919 installing package files into.
5920 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5925 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5929 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5933 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5939 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5942 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5946 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5949 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5950 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5951 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5952 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5956 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5958 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5959 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5960 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5961 multiple binary packages.
5962 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5963 should rebuild them with this version.
5964 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5968 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5971 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5975 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5978 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5982 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5985 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5986 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5987 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5988 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5989 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5990 debian/README.debian.
5991 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5992 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5993 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5994 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5995 in a few situations.)
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5999 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6005 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6011 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6014 * Fixed several man pages.
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6018 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6020 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6021 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6022 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6026 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6029 is ready for general use.
6030 * Added man pages for all commands.
6031 * Multiple binary package support.
6032 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6033 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6034 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6036 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6037 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6038 auto-installed as parameters.
6039 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6041 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6044 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6045 the package build directory it is to act on.
6046 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6047 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6048 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6052 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6054 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6055 ready to replace debstd.
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400