1 debhelper (7.3.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:35:50 -0400
7 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
9 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
13 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
15 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
19 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
21 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
22 contributed by Modestas Vainius
23 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
24 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
25 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
26 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
27 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
28 that support it. Closes: #480577
29 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
30 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
31 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
33 - Adds support for cmake.
34 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
35 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
37 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
39 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
40 that use them. The options are:
41 --sourcedir, --destdir
42 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
43 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
44 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
45 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
46 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
50 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
53 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
57 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
60 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
64 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
67 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
69 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
70 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
71 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
75 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
78 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
79 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
80 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
84 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
87 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
88 warning or deprecation message.
89 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
90 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
91 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
92 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
93 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
94 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
95 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
96 Closes: #534639, #357434
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
100 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
106 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
109 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
110 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
111 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
112 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
114 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
115 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
116 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
120 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
126 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
128 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
133 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
135 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
136 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
140 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
144 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
145 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
147 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
148 file support. Closes: #494914
149 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
153 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
156 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
157 parameters. Closes: #527256
158 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
159 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
160 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
164 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
168 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
169 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
170 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
174 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
177 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
178 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
179 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
183 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
186 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
187 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
189 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
190 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
191 by triggers). Closes: #521181
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
195 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
199 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
203 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
206 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
207 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
208 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
209 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
214 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
220 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
223 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
224 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
225 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
226 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
227 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
229 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
230 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
231 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
232 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
233 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
234 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
238 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
241 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
242 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
243 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
244 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
245 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
247 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
251 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
253 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
257 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
259 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
260 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
261 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
262 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
263 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
264 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
265 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
266 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
267 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
268 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
269 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
273 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
275 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
276 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
278 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
279 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
280 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
281 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
283 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
284 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
288 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
290 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
291 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
292 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
293 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
294 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
295 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
296 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
298 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
299 that uses them. Affected options are:
300 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
301 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
302 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
303 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
304 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
305 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
306 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
307 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
308 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
309 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
310 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
311 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
315 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
322 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
328 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
330 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
331 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
333 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
334 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
335 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
336 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
337 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
339 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
341 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
342 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
343 rules (see bug #509756).
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
347 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
353 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
354 * Typo. Closes: #493062
355 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
356 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
360 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
363 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
364 empty files. Closes: #490937
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
368 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
374 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
381 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
384 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
385 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
386 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
387 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
392 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
394 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
395 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
396 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
397 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
401 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
404 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
405 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
406 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
407 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
408 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
412 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
419 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
421 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
422 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
423 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
424 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
425 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
426 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
427 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
428 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
429 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
430 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
434 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
437 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
438 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
439 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
440 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
442 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
443 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
444 breaking backwards compatability.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
448 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
451 message in perl 5.10.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
455 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
461 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Convert copyright file to new format.
464 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
468 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
471 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
475 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
478 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
479 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
480 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
481 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
482 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
483 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
484 logging by dh_listpackages.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
488 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
491 run and there are no packages of that type.
492 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
493 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
494 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
495 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
497 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
498 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
502 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
504 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
505 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
506 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
510 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
513 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
514 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
516 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
517 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
518 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
519 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
520 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
521 planned but not yet implemented.)
522 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
523 if the Makefile has such a target.
524 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
525 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
526 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
527 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
528 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
529 but not yet implemented.)
530 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
531 recommended default, especially when using dh.
532 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
533 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
534 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
536 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
538 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
539 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
541 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
542 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
543 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
548 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
551 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
552 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
556 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
558 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
559 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
560 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
564 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
570 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
576 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
579 just those installed by the program.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
583 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
586 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
587 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
591 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
594 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
595 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
596 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
597 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
601 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
604 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
605 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
609 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
612 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
613 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
617 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
620 with policy. Closes: #461392
621 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
622 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
623 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
624 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
625 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
629 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
632 Closes: #460340, #460351
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
636 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
639 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
640 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
641 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
642 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
646 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
649 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
650 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
651 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
652 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
653 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
654 package build directory won't work.
655 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
656 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
657 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
658 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
659 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
660 mode. Closes: #459426
661 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
666 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
669 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
673 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
677 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
678 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
679 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
680 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
681 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
682 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
686 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
689 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
690 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
691 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
692 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
696 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
699 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
700 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
701 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
702 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
703 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
707 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
710 debian/package.triggers files.
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
714 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
717 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
721 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
724 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
725 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
726 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
727 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
732 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
735 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
739 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
742 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
743 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
745 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
750 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
754 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
755 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
756 * Typo. Closes: #441272
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
760 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
767 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
774 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
777 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
779 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
780 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
781 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
783 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
784 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
785 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
789 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
792 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
793 * Update urls to web page.
794 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
796 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
797 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
801 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
804 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
805 - typo in alternatives call
806 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
808 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
809 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
813 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
816 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
821 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
827 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
833 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
836 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
838 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
839 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
840 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
841 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
842 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
843 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
844 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
845 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
846 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
847 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
848 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
852 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
855 package install. Closes: #415717
856 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
857 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
858 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
859 script and then remove the python files.
860 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
861 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
862 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
863 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
864 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
865 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
866 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
867 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
868 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
869 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
870 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
871 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
872 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
876 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Correct typo in french translation
882 * Typo. Closes: #400571
883 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
885 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
887 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
888 Closes: #406921, #381940
889 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
891 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
892 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
893 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
894 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
895 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
896 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
897 specified). Closes: #381851
898 * Misc minor changes.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
902 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
909 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
910 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
914 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
920 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
921 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
924 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
925 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
927 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
928 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
929 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
930 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
934 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
937 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
940 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
944 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
950 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
953 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
956 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
957 a difficult situation.
958 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
959 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
960 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
961 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
962 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
963 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
964 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
965 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
966 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
967 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
971 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Non-maintainer upload.
974 * Update of dh_python
975 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
976 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
978 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
979 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
980 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
981 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
982 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
984 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
986 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Non-maintainer upload.
989 * Update of dh_python
990 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
991 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
992 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
993 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
994 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
995 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
996 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
997 specific python version. Closes: #373853
998 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
999 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1001 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1002 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1003 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1004 the not too-distant future).
1005 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1006 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1007 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1008 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1009 thus made the build fail.
1011 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1013 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Non-maintainer upload.
1016 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1018 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1020 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1023 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1024 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1025 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1026 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1027 package. Closes: #301424
1028 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1029 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1030 fonts). Closes: #372686
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1034 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1040 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1041 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1042 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1043 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1044 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1045 above, but already depends on that.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1049 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1052 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1053 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1054 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1055 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1056 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1060 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1066 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1072 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1073 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1077 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1080 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1084 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1088 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1089 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1090 new version (0.24.1).
1091 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1092 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1095 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1096 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1097 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1098 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1099 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1100 new directory on their own.
1101 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1102 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1106 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1109 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1110 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1111 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1112 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1116 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1119 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1120 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1121 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1122 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1123 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1127 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1133 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1137 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1138 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1142 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1143 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1147 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1149 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1150 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1152 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1153 ignored. Closes: #337664
1155 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1160 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1166 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1171 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1172 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1173 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1174 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1175 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1176 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1177 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1181 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1184 version. Closes: #350607
1185 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1186 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1187 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1188 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1192 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1195 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1196 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1197 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1201 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1208 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1214 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1217 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1221 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1224 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1225 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1226 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1227 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1228 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1229 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1233 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1236 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1237 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1242 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1245 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1249 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1252 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1256 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1259 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1260 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1261 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1262 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1263 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1264 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1268 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1272 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1273 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1274 link. Closes: #346405
1275 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1277 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1278 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1279 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1280 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1281 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1282 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1283 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1287 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1294 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1300 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1303 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1307 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1310 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1315 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1319 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1320 installed. Closes: #342033
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1324 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1327 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1328 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1329 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1334 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1340 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1346 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1350 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1351 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1352 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1356 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1359 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1364 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1371 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1377 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1380 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1381 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1382 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1383 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1384 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1385 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1386 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1388 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1392 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1395 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1396 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1400 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1403 in standard man dirs.
1404 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1408 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1414 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1417 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1422 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1429 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1436 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1439 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1440 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1444 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1447 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1448 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1449 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1451 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1453 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1459 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1465 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1468 mode. Closes: #324161
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1472 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1475 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1476 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1477 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1478 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1483 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1486 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1487 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1488 is necesary for sanity.
1489 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1490 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1495 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1497 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1498 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1502 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1505 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1509 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1515 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1518 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1519 released, so use at your own risk.
1520 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1521 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1523 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1524 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1525 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1526 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1527 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1528 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1529 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1530 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1531 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1532 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1533 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1534 including twice per config file line now..
1535 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1536 and simplfy the rules file.
1537 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1538 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1539 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1541 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1542 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1546 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1549 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1553 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1556 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1560 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1563 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1567 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1570 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1571 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1572 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1573 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1574 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1575 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1579 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1582 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1583 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1584 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1589 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1592 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1593 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1598 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1601 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1602 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1603 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1608 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1611 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1612 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1613 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1617 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1623 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1630 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1633 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1634 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1635 unknown. Closes: #282924
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1639 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1646 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Spanish man page updates.
1649 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1654 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1660 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1663 * dh_desktop: reindent
1664 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1665 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1669 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1675 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1677 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1681 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1683 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1687 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1690 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1691 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1695 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1701 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1707 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1714 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1717 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1721 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1724 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1725 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1726 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1727 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1728 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1729 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1731 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1732 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1733 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1734 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1735 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1736 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1737 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1738 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1739 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1740 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1741 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1742 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1743 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1744 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1745 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1746 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1750 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1757 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1760 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1764 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1767 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1771 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1774 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1778 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1781 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1785 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1791 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1797 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1803 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1806 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1807 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1808 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1812 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1815 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1819 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1822 but occasionally right and necessary.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1826 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1829 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1830 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1831 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1832 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1833 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1837 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1840 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1842 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1843 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1844 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1845 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1846 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1847 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1848 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1849 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1850 postinst scripts for udebs.
1851 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1855 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1858 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1860 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1861 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1865 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1871 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1878 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1885 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1888 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1892 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1895 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1899 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1902 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1905 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1906 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1910 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1916 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1919 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1923 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1926 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1927 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1928 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1930 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1932 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1933 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1934 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1938 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1941 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1946 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1949 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1950 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1951 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1956 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1962 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1968 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1971 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1972 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1973 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1974 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1975 associated -dbg packages.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1979 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1982 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1986 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1989 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1993 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1996 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2000 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2003 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2011 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2018 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2023 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2026 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2034 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2035 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2036 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2037 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2038 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2039 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2040 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2041 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2042 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2043 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2047 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2050 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2055 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2058 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2059 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2063 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2066 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2067 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2075 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2082 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2089 out section number. Closes: #204731
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2106 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2112 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2115 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2116 removal. Closes: #204286
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2120 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2123 renaming. Closes: #203548
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2130 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2131 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2141 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2147 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2153 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2156 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2157 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2158 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2162 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2165 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2166 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2170 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2176 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2183 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2186 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2194 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2198 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2201 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2203 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2204 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2208 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2211 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2216 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2219 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2231 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2235 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2238 it break hard links (see #188663).
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2242 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2245 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2249 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2255 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2259 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2260 debconf-mergetemplates
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2264 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2267 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2271 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2274 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2278 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2281 * Update debhelper(1).
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2285 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2288 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2289 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2290 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2291 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2292 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2296 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2299 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2300 the shell. Closes: #178524
2301 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2305 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2308 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2312 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2315 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2319 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2322 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2323 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2324 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2325 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2330 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2333 files from installation.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2337 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2340 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2341 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2345 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2348 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2352 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2355 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2359 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2365 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2371 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2375 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2376 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2378 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2382 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2385 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2386 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2387 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2388 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2392 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2395 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2399 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2402 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2403 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2407 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2411 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2426 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2427 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2428 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2433 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2436 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2437 practice. Closes: #163303
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2441 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2447 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2454 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2457 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2459 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2460 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2461 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2462 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2463 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2467 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2470 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2491 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2496 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2514 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2521 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2524 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2525 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2526 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2527 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2532 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2538 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2545 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2548 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2549 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2553 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2556 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2557 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2558 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2559 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2560 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2567 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2569 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2574 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2577 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2581 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2584 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2585 right thing. Closes: #150644
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2589 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Stupid, evil typo.
2592 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2596 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2603 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2606 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2607 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2621 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2625 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2628 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2629 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2634 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2637 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2641 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2647 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2650 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2651 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2661 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Removing perl warning message.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2667 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2670 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2671 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2672 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2673 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2674 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2675 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2676 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2677 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2681 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2687 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2694 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2697 debconf-mergetemplate.
2698 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2699 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2706 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2707 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2708 dh_install, which ...
2709 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2710 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2711 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2712 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2713 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2714 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2715 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2716 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2717 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2718 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2719 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2720 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2721 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2722 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2723 other minor changes.
2724 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2725 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2726 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2727 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2728 course there's -X ..)
2729 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2730 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2731 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2733 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2734 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2735 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2736 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2737 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2742 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2748 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2751 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2755 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2761 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2767 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2773 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2779 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2782 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2783 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2784 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2785 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2787 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2788 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2792 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2798 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2801 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2805 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2808 upset. Closes: #131322
2810 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2812 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2815 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2816 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2817 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2818 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2819 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2820 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2821 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2822 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2823 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2824 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2825 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2826 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2827 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2828 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2829 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2831 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2835 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2838 - Better indenting of generated code.
2839 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2843 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2847 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2848 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2849 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2850 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2851 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2852 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2853 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2857 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2860 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2864 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2867 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2868 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2869 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2870 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2871 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2872 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2873 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2874 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2875 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2876 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2877 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2878 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2879 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2880 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2881 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2886 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2892 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2895 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2896 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2900 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2903 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2904 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2908 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2914 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2917 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2918 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2919 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2920 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2921 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2926 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2932 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2935 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2939 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2942 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2947 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2953 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2956 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2960 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2966 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2970 Also some indentation fixes.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2974 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2977 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2978 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2979 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2980 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2981 Closes: #106514, #85520
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2985 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2991 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2997 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3003 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3009 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3015 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3018 change it in debhelper v4..
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3022 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3028 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3031 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3035 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3038 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3042 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3048 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3051 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3052 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3053 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3054 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3055 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3056 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3057 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3058 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3059 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3060 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3061 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3062 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3066 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3069 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3073 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3080 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3083 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3084 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3085 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3086 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3087 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3088 program those options go to. So, for example,
3089 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3090 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3091 something complex. Closes: #89311
3092 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3096 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3099 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3100 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3101 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3105 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3108 through loop. Closes: #98598
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3112 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Missing semi-colon.
3115 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3116 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3120 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3123 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3124 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3125 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3129 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3132 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3133 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3137 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3140 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3144 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3147 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3148 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3152 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3155 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3156 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3157 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3161 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3164 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3165 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3166 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3170 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3173 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3177 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3183 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3189 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3195 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3201 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3204 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3208 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3211 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3212 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3213 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3214 followed. Closes: #85483
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3218 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3220 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3221 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3222 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3226 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3229 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3230 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3231 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3232 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3233 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3234 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3235 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3236 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3237 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3238 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3239 Closes: #88464, #77743
3240 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3241 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3242 us to deal with that gracefully.
3243 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3245 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3246 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3247 a while, Closes: #51225
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3251 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3257 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3260 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3264 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3268 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3273 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3276 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3277 don't make packlist files.
3278 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3279 debhelper coding standards.
3280 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3281 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3285 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3288 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3292 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3295 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3296 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3297 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3298 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3299 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3300 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3301 but is mildly deprecated.
3302 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3303 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3304 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3305 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3306 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3307 switching to statoverrides..
3308 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3309 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3310 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3311 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3312 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3313 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3315 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3316 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3317 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3318 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3319 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3320 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3321 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3322 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3323 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3325 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3326 variable names, pod man pages).
3327 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3328 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3329 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3330 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3331 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3332 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3333 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3337 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3343 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3350 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3353 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3357 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3359 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3360 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3361 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3365 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3367 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3368 they were previously ignored.
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3372 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3374 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3375 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3379 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3381 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3382 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3383 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3387 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3389 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3393 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3395 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3396 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3400 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3402 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3403 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3404 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3405 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3406 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3407 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3408 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3409 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3410 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3411 it is an obsolete program.
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3415 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3417 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3421 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3425 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3427 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3431 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3433 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3435 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3437 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3441 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3447 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * typo: Closes, #78567
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3459 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3465 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3468 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3469 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3470 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3471 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3472 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3476 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3479 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3484 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3487 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3488 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3489 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3490 backwards-compatability.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3494 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3497 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3498 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3499 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3500 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3501 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3502 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3504 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3505 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3506 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3508 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3510 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3511 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3512 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3513 should now be raised to severity important..
3514 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3515 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3519 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3522 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3527 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3533 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3539 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3545 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3552 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3555 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3556 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3557 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3558 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3562 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3568 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3571 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3572 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3573 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3574 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3575 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3576 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3581 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3584 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3588 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3594 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3597 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3602 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3605 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3606 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3607 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3608 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3612 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3616 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3619 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3622 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3623 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3626 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3628 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3629 the TODO entry about it.
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3633 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3640 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3643 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3644 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3648 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3651 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3652 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3653 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3654 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3658 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3664 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3671 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3674 (this appears to be logal).
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3678 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3681 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3682 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3683 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3684 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3688 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3694 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3697 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3698 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3699 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3700 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3704 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3710 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3713 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3717 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3724 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3727 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3728 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3729 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3734 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3741 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3747 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3750 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3751 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3752 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3753 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3754 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3755 notice until v2 is complete.
3756 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3757 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3758 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3759 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3760 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3761 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3763 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3764 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3765 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3766 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3770 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3776 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3783 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3786 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3790 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3797 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3800 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3801 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3802 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3803 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3808 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3811 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3812 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3813 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3818 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3821 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3822 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3826 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3829 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3833 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3836 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3840 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3847 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3850 depend on the build and install targets.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3854 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3857 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3861 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3868 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3874 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3880 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3883 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3884 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3885 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3886 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3887 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3888 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3890 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3891 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3892 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3893 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3894 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3895 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3896 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3900 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3906 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3912 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3915 right place. Closes: #55065
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3919 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3926 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3929 * Copyright date updates.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3933 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3936 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3941 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3947 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3954 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3960 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3966 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3972 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3975 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3976 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3977 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3978 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3979 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3980 bits until all files have been registered.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3984 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_installmanpages:
3987 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3988 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3989 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3990 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3991 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3992 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3993 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3994 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3995 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3996 otherwise change the result at all.
3998 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3999 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4000 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4001 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4002 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4013 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4016 act on files that don't exist.
4017 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4018 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4019 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4021 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4022 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4023 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4024 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4028 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4034 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4040 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4043 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4047 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4050 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4052 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4053 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4054 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4058 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4061 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4062 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4063 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4064 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4065 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4066 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4067 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4069 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4071 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4075 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4082 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4097 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4107 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4113 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4116 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4117 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4118 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4119 I made some changes, though:
4120 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4121 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4122 that is a clear violation of policy.
4123 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4124 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4125 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4126 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4127 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4128 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4129 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4130 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4131 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4133 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4137 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4143 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4146 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4153 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4154 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4159 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4165 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4172 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4175 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4176 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4177 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4178 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4179 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4180 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4181 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4185 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4191 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4195 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4196 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4209 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4216 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4217 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4221 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4223 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4228 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4232 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4236 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4239 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4240 for the dependancies to be generated.
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4244 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4247 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4251 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4254 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4255 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4256 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4264 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4265 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4281 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4284 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4297 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4298 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4299 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4300 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4301 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4302 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4303 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4304 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4305 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4306 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4307 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4308 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4312 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4315 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4316 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4318 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4319 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4320 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4321 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4322 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4323 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4325 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4326 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4330 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4333 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4344 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4347 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4352 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4355 for building debhelper.
4356 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4360 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4370 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4377 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4378 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4379 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4380 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4381 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4382 it's always available.
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4386 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4389 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4390 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4391 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4395 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4398 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4399 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4403 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4409 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4412 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4422 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4425 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4426 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4427 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4431 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4434 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4439 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4442 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4443 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4445 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4446 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4450 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4456 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4462 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4465 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4469 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4472 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4473 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4475 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4479 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4482 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4483 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4484 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4488 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4491 things if CDPATH is set.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4495 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4501 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4504 seems to make sense for the transition.
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4508 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4511 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4516 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4519 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4520 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4524 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4527 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4531 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4534 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4535 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4536 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4537 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4541 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4550 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4551 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4552 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4553 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4554 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4555 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4556 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4557 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4558 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4559 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4564 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4567 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4568 * README: mention doc/v2
4569 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4570 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4574 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4576 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4577 be using this script RSN.
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4581 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4584 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4585 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4586 more than 1 init script.
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4590 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4593 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4597 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * Changed perl version detection.
4600 * Changed call to find.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4604 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4607 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4609 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4614 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Really include dh_installpam.
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4620 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4623 * Wrote man page for same.
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4627 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4630 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4631 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4636 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4643 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4646 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4647 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4648 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4649 x bit was being set!
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4653 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4656 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4657 well. (Closes: 38900)
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4661 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4664 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4665 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4669 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4675 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4682 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4688 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4691 help from Julian Gilbey.
4692 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4693 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4694 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4695 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4696 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4697 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4698 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4703 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4709 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4716 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4722 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4728 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4731 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4735 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4738 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4742 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4745 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4749 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4755 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4758 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4762 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4768 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4774 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4777 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4778 may be deleted. (#35845)
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4782 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * Various man page enhancements.
4785 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4790 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4793 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4794 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4798 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4801 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4802 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4803 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4805 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4806 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4811 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4817 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * Another very minor typo fix.
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4823 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * Very minor typo fix.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4829 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4832 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4833 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4837 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4843 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4846 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4847 variables properly (#34850).
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4851 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4857 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4860 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4861 (automatically generated by build process).
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4865 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4867 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4871 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4874 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4875 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4877 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4881 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4884 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4888 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * README: minor typo fix.
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4894 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4897 leave it at that. :-)
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4901 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4907 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4913 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4916 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4917 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4918 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4922 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4925 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4929 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4932 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4936 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4939 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4940 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4941 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4942 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4946 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4949 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4950 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4951 Craig Small for spotting this.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4955 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4958 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4959 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4963 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4969 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4972 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4976 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4978 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4979 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4980 working on the last version of debhelper.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4984 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4987 being made. (#23255)
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4991 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4997 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5000 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5004 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5007 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5008 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5009 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5010 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5014 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5017 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5018 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5019 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5020 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5022 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5023 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5025 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5030 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5036 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5042 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5045 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5046 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5047 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5048 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5049 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5050 suidregister actually supports it.
5051 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5052 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5056 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5063 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5066 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5067 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5068 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5069 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5070 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5071 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5072 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5076 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5078 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5079 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5083 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5086 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5087 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5088 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5089 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5093 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5096 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5098 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5099 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5100 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5101 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5102 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5103 effect, either. (#30118)
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5107 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5113 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5116 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5117 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5121 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5127 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5130 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5131 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5132 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5133 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5137 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5140 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5141 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5145 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5151 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5154 packages, painlessly.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5158 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5164 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5170 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5176 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * The perl conversion is complete.
5180 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5182 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5183 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5184 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5189 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5192 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5193 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5194 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5198 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5201 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5203 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5205 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5206 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5210 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5213 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5214 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5218 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5224 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5227 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5228 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5229 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5230 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5231 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5235 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5238 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5239 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5240 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5241 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5245 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5248 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5252 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5255 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5256 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5257 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5258 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5259 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5260 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5261 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5262 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5266 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5272 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5275 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5276 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5277 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5282 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5285 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5289 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5292 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5296 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5299 sections of shared libraries.
5300 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5301 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5302 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5303 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5304 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5305 things you don't want them to.
5306 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5307 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5311 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5314 shared libraries. (#26414)
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5318 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5320 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5321 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5322 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5323 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5327 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5331 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5333 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5334 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5335 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5336 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5337 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5341 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5344 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5348 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5351 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5352 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5357 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5360 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5364 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5367 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5368 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5369 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5370 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5371 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5373 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5374 remove debian/files properly.
5375 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5376 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5377 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5378 * Removed bogus menu file.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5382 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5385 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5389 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5392 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5393 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5394 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5395 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5396 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5397 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5401 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5404 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5405 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5406 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5407 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5411 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5418 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5421 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5422 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5424 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5425 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5426 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5427 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5428 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5429 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5433 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5436 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5437 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5438 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5439 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5440 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5441 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5442 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5443 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5444 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5445 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5446 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5447 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5448 passed any switches.
5449 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5453 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5456 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5457 at all for a long while.
5458 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5459 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5460 large chunks in the process.
5461 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5462 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5463 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5468 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5471 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5473 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5478 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5481 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5482 that don't always have the same files in them.
5483 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5484 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5485 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5489 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5493 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5494 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5495 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5496 updating 27 man pages.
5497 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5498 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5499 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5500 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5501 programs act on. (#25247)
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5505 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5509 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5510 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5511 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5512 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5513 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5514 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5519 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5526 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5533 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5536 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5540 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5546 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5549 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5550 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5551 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5552 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5553 package by accident.
5554 * Is version 1.0 next?
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5558 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5561 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5562 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5566 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5569 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5570 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5571 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5572 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5573 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5575 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5580 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5583 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5584 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5588 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5591 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5595 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5598 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5599 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5604 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5610 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5613 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5614 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5619 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5625 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5628 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5629 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5630 past week. Thanks, guys!
5632 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5633 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5634 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5635 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5636 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5637 would do in the same situation.
5638 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5639 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5641 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5643 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5644 permissions changed.
5645 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5646 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5647 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5648 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5649 files are treated identically.
5650 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5651 * Minor man page fixes.
5652 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5653 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5654 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5658 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5661 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5662 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5663 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5664 use -X multiple times, too.
5665 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5666 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5670 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5673 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5674 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5678 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5681 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5685 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5688 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5689 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5690 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5691 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5692 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5693 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5694 shape if you're starting a new package.
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5698 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5701 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5705 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5708 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5709 because of missing symlinks.
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5713 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5719 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5722 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5723 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5724 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5725 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5726 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5728 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5729 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5733 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5735 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5736 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5737 to be changed after the fact :-)
5738 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5742 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5744 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5745 no version string after the -V.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5749 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5751 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5752 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5757 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5760 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5764 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5767 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5768 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5769 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5770 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5771 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5772 I always welcome corrections!
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5776 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5782 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5785 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5786 * Documented this new switch.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5790 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5793 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5794 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5795 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5796 no packages use the old behavior.
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5800 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5803 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5804 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5808 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5810 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5811 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5815 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5821 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5823 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5824 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5828 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5831 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5832 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5833 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5837 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5843 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5846 into the source package by accident.
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5850 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5853 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5854 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5855 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5856 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5857 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5858 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5863 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5867 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5868 inspired to implement some of it.
5869 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5873 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5876 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5880 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5883 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5884 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5888 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5891 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5892 have done.) (#17598)
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5896 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5902 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5908 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5910 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5911 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5915 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5917 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5918 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5919 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5923 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5926 argument processor in perl.
5927 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5928 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5929 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5930 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5934 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5936 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5937 type directories. (#16933)
5938 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5939 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5940 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5941 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5942 are supported. (#16935)
5943 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5948 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5951 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5955 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5959 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5960 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5961 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5962 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5963 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5964 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5968 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5971 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5972 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5974 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5975 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5976 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5977 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5978 a given package, or -i or -a.
5979 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5980 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5981 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5982 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5983 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5984 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5985 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5986 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5987 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5989 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5990 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5991 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5995 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5998 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5999 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6004 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6007 does not have a section.
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6011 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6014 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6015 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6016 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6020 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6022 * Fixed typo #16215.
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6026 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6029 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6030 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6031 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6032 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6033 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6038 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6041 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6042 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6043 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6048 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6054 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6060 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6063 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6064 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6065 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6066 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6067 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6068 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6072 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6074 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6078 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6080 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6081 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6085 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6088 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6089 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6090 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6094 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6097 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6101 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6107 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6110 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6114 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6116 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6117 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6121 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6127 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6129 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6130 postinst, postrm, etc.
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6134 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6140 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6143 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6144 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6145 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6146 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6147 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6151 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6153 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6154 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6155 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6159 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6162 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6166 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6169 installing package files into.
6170 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6175 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6177 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6179 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6183 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6185 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6189 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6191 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6192 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6196 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6198 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6199 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6200 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6201 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6202 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6206 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6208 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6209 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6210 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6211 multiple binary packages.
6212 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6213 should rebuild them with this version.
6214 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6218 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6220 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6221 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6225 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6228 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6232 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6235 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6236 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6237 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6238 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6239 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6240 debian/README.debian.
6241 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6242 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6243 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6244 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6245 in a few situations.)
6247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6249 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6251 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6255 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6257 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6261 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6263 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6264 * Fixed several man pages.
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6268 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6271 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6272 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6276 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6278 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6279 is ready for general use.
6280 * Added man pages for all commands.
6281 * Multiple binary package support.
6282 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6283 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6284 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6286 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6287 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6288 auto-installed as parameters.
6289 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6291 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6294 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6295 the package build directory it is to act on.
6296 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6297 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6298 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6302 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6304 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6305 ready to replace debstd.
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400