1 debhelper (7.4.12) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
4 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
5 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:00:22 -0500
9 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
13 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
14 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
15 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
16 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
17 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
18 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
19 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
20 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
21 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
25 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
28 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
29 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
30 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
31 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
35 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Typo. Closes: #558654
38 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
39 installed. Closes: #558782
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
43 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
46 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
47 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
48 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
49 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
50 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
54 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
56 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
57 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
58 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
59 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
63 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
66 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
67 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
71 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
73 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
77 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
79 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
80 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
81 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
82 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
83 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
84 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
85 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
86 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
87 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
88 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
89 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
90 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
91 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
92 time soon.) Closes: #554509
93 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
95 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
96 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
97 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
98 document id. Closes: #555677
99 * Typo. Closes: #555659
100 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
101 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
102 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
103 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
105 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
106 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
107 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
112 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
115 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
116 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
117 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
118 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
119 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
120 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
121 translation (#494300 part 2)
124 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
126 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
127 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
128 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
129 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
130 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
134 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
137 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
138 (It was only run once due to logging.)
139 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
140 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
141 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
142 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
143 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
144 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
145 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
146 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
147 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
148 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
152 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
155 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
156 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
159 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
160 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
164 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
167 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
168 flag with arch all/any packages.
169 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
170 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
171 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
172 situation. Closes: #540794
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
176 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
180 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
181 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
182 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
183 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
184 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
187 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
188 the default. Closes: #538201
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
193 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
197 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
198 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
199 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
200 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
201 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
203 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
204 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
205 * Above Closes: #491117
206 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
211 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
217 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
218 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
219 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
223 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
226 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
227 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
228 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
229 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
230 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
235 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
238 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
239 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
243 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
245 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
249 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
251 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
252 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
254 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
255 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
256 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
260 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
262 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
263 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
267 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
273 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
275 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
276 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
277 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
282 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
284 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
288 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
291 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
292 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
293 created by using `python' first during build and install.
295 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
300 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
302 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
306 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
308 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
309 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
313 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
315 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
319 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
321 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
325 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
327 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
328 contributed by Modestas Vainius
329 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
330 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
331 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
332 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
333 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
334 that support it. Closes: #480577
335 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
336 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
337 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
339 - Adds support for cmake.
340 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
341 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
343 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
345 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
346 that use them. The options are:
347 --sourcedir, --destdir
348 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
349 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
350 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
351 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
352 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
356 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
362 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
365 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
366 default. Closes: #537140
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
370 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
373 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
374 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
378 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
381 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
385 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
388 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
392 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
395 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
397 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
398 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
399 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
403 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
406 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
407 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
408 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
412 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
415 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
416 warning or deprecation message.
417 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
418 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
419 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
420 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
421 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
422 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
423 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
424 Closes: #534639, #357434
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
428 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
434 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
437 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
438 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
439 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
440 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
442 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
443 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
444 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
448 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
454 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
461 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
464 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
468 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
472 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
473 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
475 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
476 file support. Closes: #494914
477 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
481 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
484 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
485 parameters. Closes: #527256
486 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
487 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
488 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
492 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
496 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
497 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
498 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
502 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
505 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
506 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
507 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
511 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
514 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
515 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
517 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
518 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
519 by triggers). Closes: #521181
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
523 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
527 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
531 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
534 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
535 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
536 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
537 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
542 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
548 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
551 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
552 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
553 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
554 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
555 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
557 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
558 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
559 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
560 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
561 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
562 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
566 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
569 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
570 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
571 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
572 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
573 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
575 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
579 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
581 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
585 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
587 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
588 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
589 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
590 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
591 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
592 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
593 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
594 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
595 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
596 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
597 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
601 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
603 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
604 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
606 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
607 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
608 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
609 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
611 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
612 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
616 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
618 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
619 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
620 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
621 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
622 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
623 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
624 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
626 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
627 that uses them. Affected options are:
628 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
629 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
630 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
631 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
632 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
633 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
634 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
635 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
636 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
637 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
638 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
639 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
643 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
650 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
656 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
658 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
659 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
661 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
662 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
663 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
664 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
665 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
667 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
669 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
670 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
671 rules (see bug #509756).
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
675 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
681 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
682 * Typo. Closes: #493062
683 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
684 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
688 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
691 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
692 empty files. Closes: #490937
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
696 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
702 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
709 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
712 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
713 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
714 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
715 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
720 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
722 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
723 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
724 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
725 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
729 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
732 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
733 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
734 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
735 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
736 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
740 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
747 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
749 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
750 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
751 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
752 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
753 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
754 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
755 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
756 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
757 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
758 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
762 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
765 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
766 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
767 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
768 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
770 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
771 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
772 breaking backwards compatibility.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
776 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
779 message in perl 5.10.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
783 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
789 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Convert copyright file to new format.
792 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
796 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
799 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
803 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
806 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
807 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
808 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
809 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
810 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
811 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
812 logging by dh_listpackages.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
816 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
819 run and there are no packages of that type.
820 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
821 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
822 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
823 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
825 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
826 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
830 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
832 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
833 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
834 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
838 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
841 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
842 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
844 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
845 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
846 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
847 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
848 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
849 planned but not yet implemented.)
850 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
851 if the Makefile has such a target.
852 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
853 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
854 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
855 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
856 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
857 but not yet implemented.)
858 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
859 recommended default, especially when using dh.
860 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
861 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
862 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
864 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
866 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
867 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
869 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
870 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
871 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
876 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
879 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
880 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
884 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
886 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
887 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
888 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
892 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
898 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
904 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
907 just those installed by the program.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
911 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
914 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
915 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
919 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
922 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
923 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
924 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
925 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
929 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
932 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
933 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
937 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
940 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
941 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
945 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
948 with policy. Closes: #461392
949 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
950 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
951 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
952 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
953 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
957 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
960 Closes: #460340, #460351
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
964 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
967 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
968 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
969 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
970 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
974 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
977 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
978 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
979 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
980 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
981 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
982 package build directory won't work.
983 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
984 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
985 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
986 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
987 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
988 mode. Closes: #459426
989 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
994 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
997 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1001 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1005 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1006 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1007 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1008 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1009 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1010 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1014 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1017 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1018 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1019 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1020 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1024 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1027 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1028 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1029 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1030 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1031 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1035 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1038 debian/package.triggers files.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1042 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1045 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1049 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1052 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1053 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1054 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1055 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1060 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1063 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1067 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1070 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1071 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1073 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1078 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1082 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1083 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1084 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1088 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1095 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1102 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1105 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1107 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1108 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1109 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1111 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1112 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1113 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1117 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1120 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1121 * Update urls to web page.
1122 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1123 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1124 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1125 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1129 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1132 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1133 - typo in alternatives call
1134 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1136 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1137 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1141 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1144 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1149 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1155 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1161 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1164 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1166 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1167 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1168 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1169 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1170 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1171 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1172 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1173 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1174 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1175 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1176 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1180 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1183 package install. Closes: #415717
1184 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1185 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1186 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1187 script and then remove the python files.
1188 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1189 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1190 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1191 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1192 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1193 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1194 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1195 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1196 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1197 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1198 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1199 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1200 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1204 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Correct typo in french translation
1210 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1211 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1213 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1215 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1216 Closes: #406921, #381940
1217 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1219 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1220 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1221 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1222 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1223 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1224 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1225 specified). Closes: #381851
1226 * Misc minor changes.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1230 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1237 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1238 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1242 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1248 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1249 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1252 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1253 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1255 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1256 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1257 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1258 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1262 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1265 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1268 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1272 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1278 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1284 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1285 a difficult situation.
1286 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1287 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1288 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1289 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1290 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1291 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1292 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1293 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1294 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1295 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1299 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Non-maintainer upload.
1302 * Update of dh_python
1303 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1304 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1306 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1307 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1308 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1309 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1310 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1312 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1314 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Non-maintainer upload.
1317 * Update of dh_python
1318 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1319 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1320 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1321 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1322 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1323 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1324 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1325 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1326 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1327 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1329 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1330 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1331 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1332 the not too-distant future).
1333 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1334 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1335 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1336 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1337 thus made the build fail.
1339 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1341 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Non-maintainer upload.
1344 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1346 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1348 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1351 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1352 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1353 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1354 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1355 package. Closes: #301424
1356 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1357 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1358 fonts). Closes: #372686
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1362 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1368 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1369 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1370 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1371 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1372 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1373 above, but already depends on that.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1377 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1380 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1381 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1382 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1383 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1384 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1388 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1394 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1400 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1401 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1405 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1408 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1412 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1416 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1417 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1418 new version (0.24.1).
1419 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1420 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1423 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1424 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1425 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1426 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1427 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1428 new directory on their own.
1429 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1430 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1434 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1437 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1438 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1439 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1440 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1444 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1447 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1448 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1449 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1450 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1451 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1455 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1461 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1465 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1466 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1470 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1471 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1475 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1477 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1478 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1480 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1481 ignored. Closes: #337664
1483 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1488 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1494 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1499 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1500 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1501 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1502 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1503 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1504 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1505 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1509 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1512 version. Closes: #350607
1513 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1514 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1515 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1516 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1520 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1523 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1524 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1525 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1529 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1536 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1542 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1545 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1549 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1552 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1553 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1554 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1555 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1556 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1557 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1561 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1564 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1565 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1570 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1573 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1577 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1580 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1584 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1587 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1588 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1589 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1590 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1591 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1592 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1596 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1600 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1601 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1602 link. Closes: #346405
1603 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1605 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1606 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1607 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1608 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1609 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1610 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1611 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1615 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1622 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1628 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1631 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1635 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1638 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1643 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1647 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1648 installed. Closes: #342033
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1652 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1655 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1656 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1657 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1662 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1668 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1674 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1678 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1679 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1680 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1684 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1687 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1692 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1699 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1705 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1708 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1709 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1710 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1711 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1712 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1713 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1714 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1716 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1720 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1723 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1724 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1728 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1731 in standard man dirs.
1732 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1736 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1742 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1745 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1750 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1757 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1764 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1767 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1768 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1772 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1775 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1776 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1777 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1779 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1781 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1787 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1793 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1796 mode. Closes: #324161
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1800 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1803 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1804 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1805 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1806 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1811 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1814 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1815 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1816 is necesary for sanity.
1817 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1818 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1823 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1825 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1826 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1830 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1833 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1837 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1846 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1847 released, so use at your own risk.
1848 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1849 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1851 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1852 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1853 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1854 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1855 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1856 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1857 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1858 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1859 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1860 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1861 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1862 including twice per config file line now..
1863 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1864 and simplfy the rules file.
1865 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1866 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1867 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1869 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1870 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1874 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1877 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1881 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1884 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1888 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1891 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1895 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1898 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1899 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1900 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1901 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1902 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1903 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1907 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1910 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1911 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1912 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1917 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1920 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1921 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1926 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1929 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1930 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1931 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1936 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1939 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1940 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1941 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1945 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1951 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1958 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1961 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1962 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1963 unknown. Closes: #282924
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1967 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1974 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Spanish man page updates.
1977 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1982 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1988 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1991 * dh_desktop: reindent
1992 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1993 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1997 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2003 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2005 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2009 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2011 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2015 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2018 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2019 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2023 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2042 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2045 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2052 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2053 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2054 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2055 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2056 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2057 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2059 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2060 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2061 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2062 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2063 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2064 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2065 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2066 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2067 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2068 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2069 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2070 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2071 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2072 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2073 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2074 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2078 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2085 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2088 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2092 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2095 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2099 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2102 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2106 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2109 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2113 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2119 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2125 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2131 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2134 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2135 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2136 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2140 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2143 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2147 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2150 but occasionally right and necessary.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2154 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2157 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2158 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2159 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2160 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2161 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2165 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2168 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2170 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2171 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2172 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2173 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2174 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2175 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2176 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2177 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2178 postinst scripts for udebs.
2179 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2183 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2186 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2188 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2189 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2193 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2199 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2206 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2213 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2216 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2220 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2223 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2227 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2230 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2233 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2234 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2238 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2244 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2247 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2251 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2254 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2255 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2256 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2258 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2260 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2261 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2262 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2266 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2269 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2274 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2277 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2278 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2279 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2284 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2290 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2296 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2299 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2300 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2301 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2302 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2303 associated -dbg packages.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2307 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2310 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2317 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2321 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2324 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2331 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2339 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2346 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2354 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2358 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2362 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2363 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2364 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2365 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2366 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2367 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2368 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2369 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2370 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2371 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2375 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2378 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2386 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2387 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2394 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2395 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2403 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2410 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2417 out section number. Closes: #204731
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2428 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2434 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2440 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2443 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2444 removal. Closes: #204286
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2451 renaming. Closes: #203548
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2455 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2458 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2459 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2475 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2481 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2484 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2485 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2486 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2490 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2493 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2494 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2498 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2504 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2511 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2514 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2519 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2522 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2529 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2531 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2532 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2539 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2544 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2547 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2551 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2557 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2559 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2563 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2566 it break hard links (see #188663).
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2573 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2583 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2587 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2588 debconf-mergetemplates
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2592 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2595 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2599 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2602 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2606 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2609 * Update debhelper(1).
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2613 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2616 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2617 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2618 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2619 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2620 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2624 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2627 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2628 the shell. Closes: #178524
2629 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2633 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2636 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2640 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2643 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2647 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2650 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2651 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2652 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2653 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2658 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2661 files from installation.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2665 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2668 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2669 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2673 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2676 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2680 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2683 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2687 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2693 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2699 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2703 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2704 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2706 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2710 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2713 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2714 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2715 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2716 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2720 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2723 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2727 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2730 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2731 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2735 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2739 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2744 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2750 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2754 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2755 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2756 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2761 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2764 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2765 practice. Closes: #163303
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2769 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2775 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2782 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2785 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2787 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2788 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2789 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2790 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2791 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2795 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2798 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2803 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2809 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2816 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2819 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2824 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2830 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2836 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2842 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2852 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2853 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2854 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2855 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2860 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2866 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2873 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2876 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2877 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2881 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2884 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2885 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2886 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2887 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2888 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2892 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2895 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2897 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2902 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2905 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2909 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2912 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2913 right thing. Closes: #150644
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2917 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * Stupid, evil typo.
2920 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2924 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2931 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2934 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2935 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2940 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2946 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2949 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2953 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2956 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2957 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2962 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2965 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2975 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2978 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2979 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2983 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Removing perl warning message.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2998 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2999 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3000 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3001 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3002 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3003 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3004 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3005 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3009 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3015 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3022 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3025 debconf-mergetemplate.
3026 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3027 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3031 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3034 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3035 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3036 dh_install, which ...
3037 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3038 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3039 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3040 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3041 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3042 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3043 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3044 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3045 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3046 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3047 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3048 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3049 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3050 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3051 other minor changes.
3052 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3053 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3054 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3055 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3056 course there's -X ..)
3057 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3058 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3059 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3061 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3062 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3063 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3064 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3065 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3070 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3076 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3079 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3083 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3089 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3095 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3101 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3107 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3110 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3111 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3112 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3113 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3115 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3116 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3120 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3126 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3129 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3133 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3136 upset. Closes: #131322
3138 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3140 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3143 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3144 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3145 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3146 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3147 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3148 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3149 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3150 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3151 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3152 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3153 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3154 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3155 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3156 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3157 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3159 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3163 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3166 - Better indenting of generated code.
3167 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3171 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3175 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3176 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3177 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3178 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3179 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3180 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3181 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3185 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3188 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3192 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3195 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3196 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3197 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3198 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3199 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3200 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3201 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3202 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3203 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3204 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3205 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3206 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3207 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3208 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3209 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3214 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3220 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3223 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3224 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3228 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3231 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3232 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3236 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3242 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3245 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3246 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3247 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3248 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3249 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3254 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3260 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3263 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3267 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3270 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3275 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3281 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3284 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3288 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3294 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3298 Also some indentation fixes.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3302 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3305 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3306 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3307 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3308 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3309 Closes: #106514, #85520
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3313 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3319 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3325 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3331 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3337 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3343 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3346 change it in debhelper v4..
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3350 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3356 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3359 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3363 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3366 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3370 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3376 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3379 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3380 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3381 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3382 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3383 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3384 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3385 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3386 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3387 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3388 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3389 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3390 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3394 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3397 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3401 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3408 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3411 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3412 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3413 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3414 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3415 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3416 program those options go to. So, for example,
3417 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3418 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3419 something complex. Closes: #89311
3420 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3424 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3427 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3428 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3429 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3433 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3436 through loop. Closes: #98598
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3440 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Missing semi-colon.
3443 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3444 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3448 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3451 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3452 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3453 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3457 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3460 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3461 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3465 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3468 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3472 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3475 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3476 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3480 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3483 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3484 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3485 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3489 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3492 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3493 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3494 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3498 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3501 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3505 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3511 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3517 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3523 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3529 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3532 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3536 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3539 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3540 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3541 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3542 followed. Closes: #85483
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3546 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3548 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3549 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3550 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3554 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3557 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3558 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3559 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3560 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3561 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3562 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3563 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3564 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3565 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3566 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3567 Closes: #88464, #77743
3568 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3569 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3570 us to deal with that gracefully.
3571 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3573 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3574 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3575 a while, Closes: #51225
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3579 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3585 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3588 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3592 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3596 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3601 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3604 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3605 don't make packlist files.
3606 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3607 debhelper coding standards.
3608 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3609 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3613 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3616 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3620 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3623 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3624 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3625 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3626 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3627 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3628 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3629 but is mildly deprecated.
3630 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3631 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3632 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3633 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3634 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3635 switching to statoverrides..
3636 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3637 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3638 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3639 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3640 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3641 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3643 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3644 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3645 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3646 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3647 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3648 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3649 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3650 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3651 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3653 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3654 variable names, pod man pages).
3655 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3656 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3657 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3658 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3659 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3660 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3661 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3665 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3671 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3678 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3681 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3685 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3687 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3688 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3689 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3693 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3695 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3696 they were previously ignored.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3700 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3702 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3703 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3707 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3709 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3710 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3711 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3715 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3717 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3721 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3723 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3724 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3728 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3730 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3731 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3732 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3733 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3734 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3735 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3736 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3737 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3738 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3739 it is an obsolete program.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3743 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3745 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3749 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3753 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3755 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3759 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3761 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3763 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3765 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3769 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3775 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * typo: Closes, #78567
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3781 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3787 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3793 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3796 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3797 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3798 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3799 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3800 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3804 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3807 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3812 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3815 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3816 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3817 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3818 backwards-compatibility.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3822 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3825 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3826 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3827 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3828 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3829 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3830 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3832 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3833 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3834 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3836 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3838 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3839 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3840 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3841 should now be raised to severity important..
3842 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3843 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3847 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3850 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3855 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3861 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3867 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3873 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3880 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3883 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3884 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3885 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3886 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3890 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3896 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3899 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3900 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3901 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3902 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3903 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3904 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3909 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3912 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3916 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3922 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3925 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3933 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3934 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3935 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3936 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3940 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3944 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3947 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3950 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3951 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3954 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3956 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3957 the TODO entry about it.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3961 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3968 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3971 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3972 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3976 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3979 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3980 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3981 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3982 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3986 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3992 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4002 (this appears to be logal).
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4006 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4009 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4010 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4011 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4012 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4016 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4022 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4025 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4026 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4027 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4028 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4032 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4041 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4045 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4052 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4055 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4056 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4057 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4069 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4075 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4078 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4079 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4080 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4081 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4082 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4083 notice until v2 is complete.
4084 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4085 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4086 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4087 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4088 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4089 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4091 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4092 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4093 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4094 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4098 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4111 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4114 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4118 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4125 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4128 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4129 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4130 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4131 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4139 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4140 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4141 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4149 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4150 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4154 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4157 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4161 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4164 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4168 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4175 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4178 depend on the build and install targets.
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4182 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4185 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4189 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4196 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4202 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4208 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4211 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4212 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4213 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4214 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4215 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4216 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4218 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4219 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4220 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4221 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4222 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4223 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4224 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4228 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4234 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4240 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4243 right place. Closes: #55065
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4247 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4257 * Copyright date updates.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4261 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4264 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4269 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4275 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4282 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4288 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4294 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4300 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4303 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4304 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4305 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4306 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4307 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4308 bits until all files have been registered.
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4312 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * dh_installmanpages:
4315 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4316 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4317 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4318 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4319 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4320 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4321 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4322 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4323 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4324 otherwise change the result at all.
4326 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4327 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4328 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4329 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4330 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4335 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4341 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4344 act on files that don't exist.
4345 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4346 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4347 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4349 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4350 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4351 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4352 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4356 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4362 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4368 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4371 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4375 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4377 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4378 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4380 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4381 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4382 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4386 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4389 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4390 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4391 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4392 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4393 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4394 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4395 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4397 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4399 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4403 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4410 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4422 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4425 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4429 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4435 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4441 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4444 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4445 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4446 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4447 I made some changes, though:
4448 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4449 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4450 that is a clear violation of policy.
4451 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4452 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4453 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4454 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4455 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4456 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4457 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4458 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4459 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4461 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4465 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4471 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4474 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4478 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4481 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4482 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4487 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4493 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4500 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4503 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4504 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4505 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4506 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4507 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4508 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4509 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4513 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4519 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4523 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4524 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4528 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4537 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4541 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4544 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4545 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4549 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4551 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4556 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4560 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4564 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4567 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4568 for the dependancies to be generated.
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4572 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4575 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4579 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4582 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4583 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4584 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4589 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4592 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4593 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4597 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4609 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4612 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4616 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4622 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4625 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4626 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4627 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4628 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4629 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4630 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4631 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4632 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4633 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4634 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4635 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4636 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4640 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4643 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4644 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4646 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4647 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4648 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4649 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4650 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4651 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4653 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4654 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4658 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4661 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4665 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4672 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4675 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4683 for building debhelper.
4684 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4695 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4698 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4702 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4705 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4706 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4707 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4708 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4709 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4710 it's always available.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4714 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4717 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4718 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4719 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4726 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4727 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4737 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4740 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4744 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4750 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4753 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4754 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4755 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4759 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4762 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4767 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4770 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4771 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4773 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4774 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4778 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4784 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4790 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4793 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4797 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4800 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4801 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4803 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4807 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4810 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4811 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4812 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4816 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4819 things if CDPATH is set.
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4823 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4829 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4832 seems to make sense for the transition.
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4836 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4839 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4844 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4847 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4848 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4855 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4859 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4862 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4863 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4864 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4865 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4869 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4875 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4878 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4879 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4880 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4881 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4882 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4883 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4884 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4885 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4886 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4887 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4892 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4895 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4896 * README: mention doc/v2
4897 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4898 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4902 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4904 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4905 be using this script RSN.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4909 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4912 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4913 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4914 more than 1 init script.
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4918 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4921 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4925 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * Changed perl version detection.
4928 * Changed call to find.
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4932 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4935 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4937 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4942 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * Really include dh_installpam.
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4948 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4951 * Wrote man page for same.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4955 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4958 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4959 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4964 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4971 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4974 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4975 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4976 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4977 x bit was being set!
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4981 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4984 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4985 well. (Closes: 38900)
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4989 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4992 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4993 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4997 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5003 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5010 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5016 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5019 help from Julian Gilbey.
5020 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5021 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5022 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5023 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5024 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5025 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5026 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5031 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5037 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5044 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5050 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5056 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5059 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5063 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5066 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5070 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5073 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5077 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5083 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5086 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5090 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5096 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5102 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5105 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5106 may be deleted. (#35845)
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5110 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * Various man page enhancements.
5113 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5118 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5121 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5122 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5126 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5129 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5130 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5131 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5133 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5134 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5139 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5145 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * Another very minor typo fix.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5151 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * Very minor typo fix.
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5157 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5160 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5161 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5165 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5171 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5174 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5175 variables properly (#34850).
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5179 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5185 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5188 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5189 (automatically generated by build process).
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5193 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5195 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5199 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5202 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5203 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5205 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5209 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5212 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5216 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * README: minor typo fix.
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5222 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5225 leave it at that. :-)
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5229 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5235 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5241 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5244 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5245 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5246 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5250 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5253 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5257 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5260 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5264 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5267 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5268 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5269 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5270 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5274 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5277 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5278 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5279 Craig Small for spotting this.
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5283 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5286 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5287 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5291 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5297 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5300 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5304 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5306 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5307 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5308 working on the last version of debhelper.
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5312 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5315 being made. (#23255)
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5319 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5325 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5328 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5332 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5335 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5336 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5337 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5338 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5342 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5345 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5346 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5347 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5348 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5350 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5351 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5353 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5358 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5364 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5370 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5373 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5374 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5375 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5376 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5377 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5378 suidregister actually supports it.
5379 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5380 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5384 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5391 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5394 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5395 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5396 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5397 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5398 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5399 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5400 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5404 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5406 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5407 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5411 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5414 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5415 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5416 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5417 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5421 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5424 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5426 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5427 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5428 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5429 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5430 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5431 effect, either. (#30118)
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5435 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5441 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5444 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5445 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5449 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5455 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5458 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5459 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5460 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5461 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5465 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5468 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5469 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5473 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5479 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5482 packages, painlessly.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5486 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5492 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5498 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5500 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5504 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * The perl conversion is complete.
5508 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5510 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5511 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5512 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5517 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5520 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5521 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5522 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5526 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5529 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5531 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5533 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5534 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5538 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5541 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5542 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5546 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5552 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5555 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5556 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5557 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5558 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5559 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5563 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5566 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5567 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5568 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5569 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5573 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5576 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5580 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5583 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5584 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5585 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5586 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5587 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5588 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5589 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5590 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5594 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5600 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5603 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5604 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5605 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5610 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5613 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5617 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5620 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5624 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5627 sections of shared libraries.
5628 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5629 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5630 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5631 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5632 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5633 things you don't want them to.
5634 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5635 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5639 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5642 shared libraries. (#26414)
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5646 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5648 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5649 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5650 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5651 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5655 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5659 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5661 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5662 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5663 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5664 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5665 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5669 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5672 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5676 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5679 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5680 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5685 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5688 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5692 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5695 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5696 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5697 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5698 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5699 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5701 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5702 remove debian/files properly.
5703 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5704 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5705 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5706 * Removed bogus menu file.
5708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5710 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5712 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5713 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5717 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5720 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5721 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5722 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5723 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5724 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5725 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5729 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5732 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5733 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5734 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5735 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5739 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5746 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5749 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5750 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5752 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5753 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5754 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5755 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5756 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5757 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5761 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5764 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5765 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5766 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5767 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5768 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5769 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5770 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5771 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5772 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5773 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5774 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5775 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5776 passed any switches.
5777 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5781 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5784 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5785 at all for a long while.
5786 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5787 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5788 large chunks in the process.
5789 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5790 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5791 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5796 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5799 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5801 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5806 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5808 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5809 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5810 that don't always have the same files in them.
5811 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5812 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5813 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5817 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5821 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5822 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5823 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5824 updating 27 man pages.
5825 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5826 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5827 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5828 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5829 programs act on. (#25247)
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5833 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5837 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5838 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5839 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5840 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5841 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5842 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5847 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5854 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5861 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5864 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5868 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5870 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5874 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5877 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5878 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5879 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5880 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5881 package by accident.
5882 * Is version 1.0 next?
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5886 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5889 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5890 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5894 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5896 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5897 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5898 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5899 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5900 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5901 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5903 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5908 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5910 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5911 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5912 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5916 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5919 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5923 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5926 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5927 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5932 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5938 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5940 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5941 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5942 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5947 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5953 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5956 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5957 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5958 past week. Thanks, guys!
5960 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5961 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5962 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5963 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5964 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5965 would do in the same situation.
5966 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5967 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5969 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5971 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5972 permissions changed.
5973 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5974 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5975 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5976 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5977 files are treated identically.
5978 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5979 * Minor man page fixes.
5980 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5981 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5982 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5986 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5989 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5990 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5991 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5992 use -X multiple times, too.
5993 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5994 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5998 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6001 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6002 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6006 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6009 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6013 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6015 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6016 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6017 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6018 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6019 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6020 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6021 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6022 shape if you're starting a new package.
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6026 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6029 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6033 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6036 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6037 because of missing symlinks.
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6041 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6047 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6050 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6051 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6052 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6053 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6054 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6056 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6057 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6061 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6063 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6064 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6065 to be changed after the fact :-)
6066 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6070 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6072 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6073 no version string after the -V.
6075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6077 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6079 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6080 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6085 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6088 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6092 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6094 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6095 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6096 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6097 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6098 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6099 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6100 I always welcome corrections!
6102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6104 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6106 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6110 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6113 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6114 * Documented this new switch.
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6118 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6121 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6122 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6123 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6124 no packages use the old behavior.
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6128 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6131 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6132 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6136 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6139 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6143 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6145 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6149 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6152 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6156 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6159 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6160 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6161 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6165 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6167 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6171 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6174 into the source package by accident.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6178 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6181 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6182 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6183 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6184 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6185 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6186 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6191 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6193 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6195 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6196 inspired to implement some of it.
6197 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6201 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6204 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6208 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6210 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6211 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6212 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6216 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6219 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6220 have done.) (#17598)
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6224 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6230 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6236 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6238 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6239 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6243 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6246 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6247 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6251 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6253 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6254 argument processor in perl.
6255 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6256 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6257 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6258 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6262 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6265 type directories. (#16933)
6266 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6267 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6268 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6269 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6270 are supported. (#16935)
6271 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6276 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6278 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6279 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6283 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6285 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6287 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6288 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6289 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6290 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6291 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6292 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6296 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6299 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6300 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6302 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6303 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6304 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6305 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6306 a given package, or -i or -a.
6307 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6308 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6309 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6310 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6311 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6312 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6313 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6314 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6315 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6317 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6318 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6319 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6323 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6326 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6327 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6332 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6334 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6335 does not have a section.
6337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6339 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6341 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6342 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6343 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6344 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6348 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * Fixed typo #16215.
6352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6354 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6356 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6357 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6358 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6359 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6360 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6361 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6366 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6368 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6369 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6370 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6371 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6376 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6378 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6382 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6384 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6388 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6390 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6391 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6392 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6393 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6394 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6395 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6396 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6400 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6402 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6406 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6408 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6409 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6413 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6415 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6416 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6417 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6418 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6422 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6425 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6429 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6431 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6435 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6437 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6438 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6442 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6444 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6445 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6449 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6451 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6455 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6458 postinst, postrm, etc.
6460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6462 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6464 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6468 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6470 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6471 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6472 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6473 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6474 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6475 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6479 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6481 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6482 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6483 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6487 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6490 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6494 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6496 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6497 installing package files into.
6498 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6503 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6505 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6507 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6511 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6513 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6517 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6520 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6524 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6526 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6527 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6528 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6529 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6530 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6534 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6536 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6537 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6538 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6539 multiple binary packages.
6540 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6541 should rebuild them with this version.
6542 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6546 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6548 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6549 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6553 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6555 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6556 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6560 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6562 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6563 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6564 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6565 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6566 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6567 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6568 debian/README.debian.
6569 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6570 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6571 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6572 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6573 in a few situations.)
6575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6577 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6579 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6583 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6585 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6589 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6591 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6592 * Fixed several man pages.
6594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6596 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6598 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6599 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6600 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6604 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6606 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6607 is ready for general use.
6608 * Added man pages for all commands.
6609 * Multiple binary package support.
6610 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6611 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6612 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6614 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6615 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6616 auto-installed as parameters.
6617 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6619 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6622 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6623 the package build directory it is to act on.
6624 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6625 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6626 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6630 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6632 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6633 ready to replace debstd.
6635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400