1 debhelper (7.4.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
5 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
6 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
7 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
8 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
9 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
10 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
11 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:23:25 -0500
15 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
18 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
19 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
20 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
21 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
25 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Typo. Closes: #558654
28 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
29 installed. Closes: #558782
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
33 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
36 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
37 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
38 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
39 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
40 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
44 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
46 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
47 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
48 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
49 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
53 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
56 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
57 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
61 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
63 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
67 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
69 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
70 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
71 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
72 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
73 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
74 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
75 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
76 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
77 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
78 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
79 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
80 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
81 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
82 time soon.) Closes: #554509
83 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
85 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
86 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
87 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
88 document id. Closes: #555677
89 * Typo. Closes: #555659
90 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
91 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
92 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
93 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
95 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
96 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
97 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
102 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
105 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
106 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
107 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
108 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
109 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
110 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
111 translation (#494300 part 2)
114 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
116 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
117 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
118 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
119 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
120 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
124 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
127 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
128 (It was only run once due to logging.)
129 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
130 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
131 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
132 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
133 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
134 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
135 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
136 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
137 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
138 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
142 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
146 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
149 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
150 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
154 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
157 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
158 flag with arch all/any packages.
159 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
160 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
161 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
162 situation. Closes: #540794
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
166 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
170 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
171 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
172 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
173 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
174 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
177 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
178 the default. Closes: #538201
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
183 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
187 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
188 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
189 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
190 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
191 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
193 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
194 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
195 * Above Closes: #491117
196 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
201 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
207 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
208 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
209 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
213 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
216 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
217 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
218 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
219 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
220 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
225 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
228 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
229 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
233 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
235 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
239 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
241 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
242 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
244 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
245 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
246 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
250 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
252 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
253 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
257 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
263 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
265 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
266 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
267 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
272 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
274 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
278 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
281 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
282 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
283 created by using `python' first during build and install.
285 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
290 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
292 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
296 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
298 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
299 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
303 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
305 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
309 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
311 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
315 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
317 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
318 contributed by Modestas Vainius
319 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
320 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
321 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
322 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
323 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
324 that support it. Closes: #480577
325 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
326 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
327 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
329 - Adds support for cmake.
330 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
331 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
333 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
335 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
336 that use them. The options are:
337 --sourcedir, --destdir
338 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
339 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
340 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
341 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
342 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
346 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
352 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
355 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
356 default. Closes: #537140
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
360 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
363 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
364 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
368 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
371 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
375 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
378 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
382 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
385 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
387 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
388 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
389 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
393 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
396 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
397 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
398 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
402 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
405 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
406 warning or deprecation message.
407 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
408 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
409 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
410 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
411 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
412 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
413 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
414 Closes: #534639, #357434
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
418 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
424 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
427 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
428 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
429 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
430 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
432 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
433 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
434 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
438 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
444 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
451 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
454 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
458 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
462 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
463 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
465 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
466 file support. Closes: #494914
467 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
471 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
474 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
475 parameters. Closes: #527256
476 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
477 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
478 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
482 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
486 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
487 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
488 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
492 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
495 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
496 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
497 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
501 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
504 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
505 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
507 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
508 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
509 by triggers). Closes: #521181
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
513 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
517 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
521 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
524 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
525 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
526 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
527 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
532 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
538 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
541 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
542 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
543 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
544 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
545 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
547 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
548 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
549 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
550 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
551 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
552 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
556 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
559 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
560 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
561 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
562 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
563 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
565 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
569 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
571 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
575 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
577 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
578 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
579 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
580 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
581 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
582 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
583 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
584 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
585 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
586 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
587 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
591 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
593 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
594 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
596 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
597 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
598 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
599 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
601 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
602 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
606 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
608 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
609 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
610 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
611 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
612 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
613 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
614 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
616 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
617 that uses them. Affected options are:
618 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
619 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
620 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
621 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
622 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
623 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
624 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
625 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
626 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
627 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
628 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
629 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
633 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
640 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
646 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
648 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
649 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
651 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
652 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
653 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
654 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
655 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
657 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
659 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
660 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
661 rules (see bug #509756).
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
665 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
671 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
672 * Typo. Closes: #493062
673 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
674 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
678 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
680 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
681 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
682 empty files. Closes: #490937
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
686 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
692 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
699 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
702 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
703 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
704 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
705 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
710 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
712 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
713 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
714 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
715 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
719 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
722 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
723 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
724 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
725 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
726 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
730 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
737 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
739 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
740 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
741 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
742 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
743 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
744 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
745 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
746 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
747 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
748 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
752 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
755 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
756 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
757 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
758 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
760 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
761 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
762 breaking backwards compatibility.
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
766 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
768 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
769 message in perl 5.10.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
773 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
779 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Convert copyright file to new format.
782 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
786 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
789 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
793 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
796 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
797 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
798 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
799 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
800 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
801 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
802 logging by dh_listpackages.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
806 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
809 run and there are no packages of that type.
810 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
811 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
812 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
813 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
815 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
816 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
820 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
822 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
823 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
824 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
828 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
831 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
832 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
834 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
835 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
836 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
837 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
838 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
839 planned but not yet implemented.)
840 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
841 if the Makefile has such a target.
842 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
843 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
844 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
845 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
846 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
847 but not yet implemented.)
848 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
849 recommended default, especially when using dh.
850 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
851 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
852 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
854 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
856 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
857 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
859 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
860 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
861 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
866 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
869 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
870 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
874 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
876 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
877 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
878 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
882 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
888 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
894 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
897 just those installed by the program.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
901 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
904 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
905 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
909 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
912 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
913 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
914 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
915 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
919 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
922 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
923 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
927 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
930 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
931 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
935 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
938 with policy. Closes: #461392
939 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
940 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
941 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
942 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
943 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
947 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
950 Closes: #460340, #460351
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
954 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
957 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
958 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
959 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
960 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
964 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
967 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
968 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
969 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
970 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
971 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
972 package build directory won't work.
973 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
974 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
975 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
976 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
977 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
978 mode. Closes: #459426
979 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
984 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
987 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
991 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
995 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
996 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
997 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
998 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
999 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1000 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1004 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1007 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1008 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1009 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1010 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1014 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1017 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1018 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1019 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1020 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1021 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1025 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1028 debian/package.triggers files.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1032 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1035 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1039 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1042 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1043 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1044 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1045 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1050 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1053 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1057 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1060 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1061 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1063 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1068 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1072 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1073 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1074 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1078 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1085 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1092 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1095 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1097 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1098 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1099 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1101 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1102 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1103 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1107 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1110 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1111 * Update urls to web page.
1112 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1113 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1114 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1115 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1119 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1122 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1123 - typo in alternatives call
1124 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1126 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1127 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1131 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1134 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1139 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1145 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1151 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1154 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1156 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1157 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1158 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1159 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1160 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1161 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1162 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1163 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1164 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1165 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1166 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1170 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1173 package install. Closes: #415717
1174 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1175 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1176 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1177 script and then remove the python files.
1178 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1179 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1180 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1181 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1182 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1183 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1184 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1185 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1186 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1187 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1188 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1189 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1190 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1194 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Correct typo in french translation
1200 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1201 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1203 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1205 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1206 Closes: #406921, #381940
1207 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1209 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1210 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1211 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1212 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1213 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1214 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1215 specified). Closes: #381851
1216 * Misc minor changes.
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1220 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1227 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1228 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1232 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1238 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1239 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1242 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1243 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1245 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1246 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1247 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1248 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1252 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1255 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1258 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1262 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1268 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1274 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1275 a difficult situation.
1276 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1277 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1278 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1279 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1280 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1281 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1282 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1283 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1284 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1285 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1289 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Non-maintainer upload.
1292 * Update of dh_python
1293 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1294 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1296 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1297 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1298 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1299 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1300 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1302 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1304 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Non-maintainer upload.
1307 * Update of dh_python
1308 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1309 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1310 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1311 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1312 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1313 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1314 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1315 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1316 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1317 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1319 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1320 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1321 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1322 the not too-distant future).
1323 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1324 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1325 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1326 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1327 thus made the build fail.
1329 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1331 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Non-maintainer upload.
1334 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1336 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1338 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1341 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1342 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1343 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1344 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1345 package. Closes: #301424
1346 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1347 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1348 fonts). Closes: #372686
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1352 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1358 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1359 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1360 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1361 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1362 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1363 above, but already depends on that.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1367 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1370 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1371 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1372 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1373 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1374 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1378 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1384 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1390 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1391 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1395 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1398 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1402 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1406 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1407 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1408 new version (0.24.1).
1409 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1410 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1413 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1414 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1415 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1416 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1417 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1418 new directory on their own.
1419 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1420 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1424 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1427 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1428 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1429 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1430 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1434 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1437 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1438 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1439 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1440 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1441 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1445 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1451 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1455 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1456 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1460 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1461 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1465 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1467 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1468 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1470 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1471 ignored. Closes: #337664
1473 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1478 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1484 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1489 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1490 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1491 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1492 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1493 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1494 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1495 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1499 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1502 version. Closes: #350607
1503 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1504 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1505 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1506 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1510 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1513 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1514 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1515 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1519 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1526 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1532 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1535 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1539 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1542 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1543 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1544 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1545 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1546 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1547 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1551 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1554 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1555 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1560 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1563 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1567 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1570 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1574 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1577 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1578 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1579 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1580 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1581 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1582 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1586 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1590 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1591 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1592 link. Closes: #346405
1593 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1595 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1596 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1597 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1598 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1599 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1600 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1601 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1605 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1612 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1618 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1621 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1625 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1628 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1633 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1637 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1638 installed. Closes: #342033
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1642 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1645 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1646 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1647 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1652 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1658 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1664 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1668 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1669 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1670 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1674 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1677 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1682 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1689 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1695 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1698 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1699 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1700 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1701 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1702 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1703 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1704 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1706 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1710 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1713 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1714 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1718 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1721 in standard man dirs.
1722 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1726 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1732 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1735 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1740 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1747 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1754 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1757 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1758 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1762 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1765 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1766 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1767 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1769 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1771 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1777 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1783 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1786 mode. Closes: #324161
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1790 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1793 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1794 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1795 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1796 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1801 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1804 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1805 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1806 is necesary for sanity.
1807 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1808 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1813 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1815 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1816 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1820 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1823 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1827 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1833 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1836 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1837 released, so use at your own risk.
1838 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1839 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1841 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1842 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1843 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1844 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1845 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1846 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1847 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1848 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1849 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1850 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1851 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1852 including twice per config file line now..
1853 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1854 and simplfy the rules file.
1855 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1856 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1857 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1859 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1860 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1864 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1867 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1871 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1874 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1878 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1881 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1885 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1888 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1889 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1890 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1891 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1892 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1893 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1897 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1900 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1901 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1902 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1907 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1910 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1911 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1916 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1919 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1920 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1921 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1926 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1929 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1930 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1931 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1935 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1941 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1948 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1951 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1952 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1953 unknown. Closes: #282924
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1957 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1964 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Spanish man page updates.
1967 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1972 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1978 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1981 * dh_desktop: reindent
1982 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1983 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1993 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1995 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1999 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2001 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2005 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2008 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2009 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2013 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2019 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2025 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2032 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2035 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2039 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2042 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2043 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2044 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2045 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2046 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2047 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2049 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2050 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2051 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2052 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2053 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2054 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2055 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2056 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2057 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2058 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2059 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2060 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2061 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2062 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2063 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2064 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2068 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2075 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2078 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2082 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2085 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2089 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2092 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2096 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2099 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2103 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2109 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2115 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2121 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2124 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2125 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2126 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2130 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2133 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2137 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2140 but occasionally right and necessary.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2144 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2147 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2148 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2149 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2150 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2151 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2155 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2158 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2160 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2161 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2162 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2163 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2164 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2165 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2166 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2167 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2168 postinst scripts for udebs.
2169 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2173 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2176 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2178 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2179 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2183 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2189 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2196 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2203 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2206 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2210 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2213 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2217 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2220 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2223 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2224 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2228 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2234 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2237 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2241 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2244 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2245 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2246 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2248 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2250 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2251 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2252 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2256 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2259 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2264 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2267 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2268 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2269 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2274 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2280 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2286 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2289 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2290 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2291 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2292 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2293 associated -dbg packages.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2297 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2300 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2307 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2314 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2318 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2321 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2326 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2329 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2333 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2336 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2344 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2352 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2353 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2354 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2355 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2356 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2357 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2358 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2359 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2360 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2361 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2368 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2376 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2377 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2381 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2384 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2385 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2390 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2393 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2400 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2404 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2407 out section number. Closes: #204731
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2411 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2433 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2434 removal. Closes: #204286
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2441 renaming. Closes: #203548
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2445 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2448 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2449 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2453 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2465 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2471 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2474 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2475 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2476 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2480 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2483 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2484 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2494 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2504 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2512 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2516 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2519 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2521 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2522 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2529 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2534 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2537 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2541 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2547 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2549 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2553 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2556 it break hard links (see #188663).
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2560 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2563 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2567 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2573 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2577 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2578 debconf-mergetemplates
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2582 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2585 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2589 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2592 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2596 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2599 * Update debhelper(1).
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2603 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2606 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2607 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2608 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2609 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2610 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2614 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2617 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2618 the shell. Closes: #178524
2619 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2623 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2626 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2630 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2633 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2637 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2640 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2641 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2642 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2643 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2648 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2651 files from installation.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2655 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2658 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2659 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2663 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2666 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2670 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2673 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2677 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2683 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2689 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2693 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2694 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2696 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2700 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2703 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2704 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2705 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2706 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2710 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2713 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2717 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2720 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2721 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2725 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2729 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2734 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2740 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2744 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2745 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2746 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2751 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2754 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2755 practice. Closes: #163303
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2759 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2765 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2772 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2775 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2777 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2778 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2779 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2780 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2781 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2788 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2793 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2799 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2806 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2809 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2814 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2820 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2826 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2832 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2839 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2842 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2843 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2844 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2845 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2850 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2856 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2866 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2867 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2871 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2874 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2875 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2876 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2877 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2878 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2882 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2885 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2887 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2892 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2895 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2899 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2902 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2903 right thing. Closes: #150644
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2907 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Stupid, evil typo.
2910 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2914 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2921 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2924 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2925 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2930 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2936 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2939 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2943 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2946 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2947 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2952 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2955 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2959 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2965 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2968 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2969 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2973 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2979 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * Removing perl warning message.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2985 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2988 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2989 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2990 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2991 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2992 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2993 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2994 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2995 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2999 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3005 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3012 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3015 debconf-mergetemplate.
3016 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3017 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3021 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3024 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3025 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3026 dh_install, which ...
3027 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3028 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3029 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3030 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3031 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3032 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3033 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3034 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3035 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3036 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3037 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3038 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3039 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3040 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3041 other minor changes.
3042 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3043 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3044 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3045 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3046 course there's -X ..)
3047 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3048 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3049 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3051 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3052 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3053 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3054 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3055 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3060 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3066 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3069 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3073 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3079 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3085 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3091 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3097 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3100 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3101 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3102 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3103 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3105 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3106 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3110 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3116 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3119 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3123 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3126 upset. Closes: #131322
3128 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3130 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3133 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3134 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3135 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3136 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3137 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3138 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3139 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3140 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3141 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3142 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3143 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3144 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3145 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3146 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3147 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3149 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3153 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3156 - Better indenting of generated code.
3157 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3161 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3165 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3166 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3167 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3168 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3169 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3170 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3171 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3175 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3178 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3182 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3185 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3186 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3187 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3188 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3189 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3190 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3191 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3192 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3193 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3194 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3195 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3196 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3197 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3198 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3199 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3204 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3210 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3213 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3214 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3218 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3221 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3222 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3226 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3232 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3235 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3236 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3237 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3238 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3239 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3244 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3250 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3253 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3257 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3260 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3265 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3271 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3274 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3278 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3284 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3288 Also some indentation fixes.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3292 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3295 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3296 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3297 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3298 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3299 Closes: #106514, #85520
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3303 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3309 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3315 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3321 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3327 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3333 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3336 change it in debhelper v4..
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3340 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3346 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3349 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3353 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3356 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3360 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3366 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3369 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3370 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3371 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3372 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3373 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3374 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3375 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3376 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3377 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3378 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3379 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3380 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3384 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3387 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3391 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3398 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3401 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3402 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3403 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3404 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3405 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3406 program those options go to. So, for example,
3407 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3408 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3409 something complex. Closes: #89311
3410 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3414 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3417 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3418 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3419 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3423 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3426 through loop. Closes: #98598
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3430 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Missing semi-colon.
3433 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3434 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3438 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3441 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3442 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3443 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3447 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3450 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3451 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3455 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3458 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3462 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3465 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3466 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3470 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3473 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3474 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3475 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3479 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3482 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3483 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3484 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3488 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3491 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3495 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3501 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3507 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3513 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3519 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3522 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3526 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3529 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3530 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3531 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3532 followed. Closes: #85483
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3536 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3538 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3539 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3540 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3544 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3547 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3548 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3549 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3550 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3551 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3552 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3553 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3554 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3555 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3556 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3557 Closes: #88464, #77743
3558 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3559 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3560 us to deal with that gracefully.
3561 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3563 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3564 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3565 a while, Closes: #51225
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3569 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3575 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3578 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3582 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3586 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3591 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3594 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3595 don't make packlist files.
3596 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3597 debhelper coding standards.
3598 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3599 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3603 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3606 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3610 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3613 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3614 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3615 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3616 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3617 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3618 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3619 but is mildly deprecated.
3620 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3621 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3622 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3623 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3624 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3625 switching to statoverrides..
3626 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3627 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3628 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3629 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3630 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3631 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3633 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3634 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3635 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3636 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3637 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3638 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3639 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3640 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3641 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3643 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3644 variable names, pod man pages).
3645 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3646 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3647 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3648 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3649 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3650 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3651 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3655 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3661 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3668 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3671 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3675 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3677 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3678 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3679 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3683 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3685 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3686 they were previously ignored.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3690 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3692 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3693 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3697 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3699 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3700 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3701 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3705 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3707 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3711 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3713 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3714 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3718 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3720 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3721 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3722 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3723 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3724 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3725 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3726 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3727 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3728 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3729 it is an obsolete program.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3733 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3735 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3739 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3743 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3745 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3749 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3751 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3753 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3755 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3765 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * typo: Closes, #78567
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3771 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3777 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3783 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3786 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3787 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3788 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3789 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3790 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3794 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3797 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3802 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3805 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3806 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3807 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3808 backwards-compatibility.
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3812 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3815 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3816 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3817 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3818 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3819 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3820 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3822 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3823 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3824 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3826 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3828 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3829 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3830 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3831 should now be raised to severity important..
3832 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3833 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3837 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3840 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3845 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3851 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3857 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3863 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3870 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3873 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3874 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3875 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3876 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3880 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3886 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3889 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3890 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3891 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3892 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3893 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3894 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3899 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3902 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3906 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3912 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3915 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3920 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3923 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3924 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3925 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3926 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3934 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3937 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3940 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3941 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3944 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3946 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3947 the TODO entry about it.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3951 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3958 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3961 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3962 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3966 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3969 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3970 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3971 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3972 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3976 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3989 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3992 (this appears to be logal).
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3996 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3999 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4000 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4001 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4002 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4006 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4015 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4016 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4017 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4018 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4022 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4031 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4035 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4042 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4045 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4046 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4047 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4052 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4059 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4065 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4068 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4069 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4070 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4071 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4072 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4073 notice until v2 is complete.
4074 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4075 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4076 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4077 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4078 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4079 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4081 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4082 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4083 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4084 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4104 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4108 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4115 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4118 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4119 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4120 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4121 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4126 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4129 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4130 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4131 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4139 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4140 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4144 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4147 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4151 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4154 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4165 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4168 depend on the build and install targets.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4172 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4175 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4179 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4186 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4192 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4198 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4201 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4202 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4203 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4204 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4205 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4206 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4208 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4209 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4210 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4211 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4212 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4213 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4214 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4218 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4224 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4230 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4233 right place. Closes: #55065
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4237 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4244 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4247 * Copyright date updates.
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4251 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4254 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4259 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4265 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4272 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4278 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4284 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4290 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4293 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4294 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4295 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4296 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4297 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4298 bits until all files have been registered.
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4302 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * dh_installmanpages:
4305 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4306 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4307 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4308 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4309 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4310 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4311 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4312 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4313 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4314 otherwise change the result at all.
4316 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4317 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4318 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4319 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4320 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4325 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4331 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4334 act on files that don't exist.
4335 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4336 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4337 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4339 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4340 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4341 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4342 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4346 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4352 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4358 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4361 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4365 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4368 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4370 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4371 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4372 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4376 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4379 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4380 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4381 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4382 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4383 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4384 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4385 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4387 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4389 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4393 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4400 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4406 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4412 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4415 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4419 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4425 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4431 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4434 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4435 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4436 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4437 I made some changes, though:
4438 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4439 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4440 that is a clear violation of policy.
4441 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4442 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4443 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4444 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4445 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4446 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4447 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4448 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4449 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4451 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4455 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4461 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4464 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4471 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4472 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4477 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4483 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4490 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4493 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4494 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4495 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4496 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4497 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4498 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4499 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4503 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4509 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4513 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4514 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4518 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4524 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4527 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4531 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4534 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4535 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4539 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4541 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4546 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4550 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4554 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4557 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4558 for the dependancies to be generated.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4562 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4565 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4569 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4572 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4573 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4574 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4579 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4582 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4583 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4593 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4599 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4602 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4606 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4612 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4615 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4616 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4617 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4618 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4619 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4620 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4621 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4622 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4623 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4624 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4625 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4626 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4633 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4634 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4636 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4637 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4638 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4639 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4640 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4641 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4643 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4644 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4648 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4651 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4655 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4662 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4665 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4670 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4673 for building debhelper.
4674 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4678 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4685 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4688 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4692 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4695 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4696 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4697 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4698 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4699 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4700 it's always available.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4707 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4708 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4709 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4713 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4716 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4717 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4721 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4727 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4730 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4734 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4740 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4743 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4744 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4745 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4749 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4752 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4757 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4760 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4761 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4763 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4764 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4768 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4774 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4780 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4783 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4787 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4790 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4791 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4793 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4797 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4800 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4801 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4802 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4806 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4809 things if CDPATH is set.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4813 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4819 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4822 seems to make sense for the transition.
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4826 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4829 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4834 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4837 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4838 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4842 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4845 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4849 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4852 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4853 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4854 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4855 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4859 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4865 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4868 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4869 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4870 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4871 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4872 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4873 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4874 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4875 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4876 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4877 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4882 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4885 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4886 * README: mention doc/v2
4887 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4888 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4892 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4894 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4895 be using this script RSN.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4899 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4902 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4903 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4904 more than 1 init script.
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4908 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4911 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4915 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * Changed perl version detection.
4918 * Changed call to find.
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4922 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4925 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4927 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4932 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * Really include dh_installpam.
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4938 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4941 * Wrote man page for same.
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4945 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4948 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4949 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4954 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4961 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4964 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4965 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4966 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4967 x bit was being set!
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4971 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4974 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4975 well. (Closes: 38900)
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4979 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4982 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4983 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4987 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4993 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5000 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5006 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5009 help from Julian Gilbey.
5010 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5011 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5012 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5013 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5014 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5015 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5016 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5021 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5027 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5034 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5040 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5046 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5049 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5053 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5056 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5060 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5063 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5067 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5069 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5073 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5076 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5080 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5086 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5092 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5095 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5096 may be deleted. (#35845)
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5100 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * Various man page enhancements.
5103 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5108 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5111 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5112 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5116 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5119 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5120 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5121 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5123 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5124 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5129 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5135 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * Another very minor typo fix.
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5141 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * Very minor typo fix.
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5147 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5150 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5151 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5155 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5161 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5164 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5165 variables properly (#34850).
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5169 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5175 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5178 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5179 (automatically generated by build process).
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5183 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5185 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5189 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5192 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5193 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5195 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5199 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5202 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5206 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * README: minor typo fix.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5212 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5215 leave it at that. :-)
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5219 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5225 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5231 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5234 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5235 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5236 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5240 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5243 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5247 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5250 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5254 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5257 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5258 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5259 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5260 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5264 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5267 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5268 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5269 Craig Small for spotting this.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5273 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5276 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5277 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5281 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5287 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5290 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5294 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5296 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5297 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5298 working on the last version of debhelper.
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5302 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5305 being made. (#23255)
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5309 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5315 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5318 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5322 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5325 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5326 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5327 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5328 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5332 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5335 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5336 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5337 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5338 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5340 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5341 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5343 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5348 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5354 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5360 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5363 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5364 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5365 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5366 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5367 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5368 suidregister actually supports it.
5369 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5370 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5374 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5381 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5384 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5385 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5386 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5387 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5388 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5389 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5390 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5394 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5396 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5397 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5401 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5404 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5405 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5406 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5407 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5411 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5414 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5416 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5417 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5418 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5419 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5420 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5421 effect, either. (#30118)
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5425 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5431 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5434 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5435 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5439 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5445 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5448 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5449 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5450 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5451 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5455 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5458 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5459 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5463 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5469 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5472 packages, painlessly.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5476 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5482 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5488 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5494 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * The perl conversion is complete.
5498 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5500 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5501 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5502 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5507 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5510 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5511 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5512 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5516 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5519 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5521 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5523 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5524 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5528 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5531 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5532 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5536 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5542 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5545 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5546 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5547 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5548 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5549 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5553 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5556 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5557 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5558 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5559 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5563 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5566 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5570 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5573 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5574 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5575 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5576 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5577 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5578 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5579 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5580 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5584 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5590 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5593 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5594 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5595 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5600 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5603 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5607 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5610 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5614 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5617 sections of shared libraries.
5618 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5619 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5620 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5621 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5622 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5623 things you don't want them to.
5624 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5625 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5629 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5632 shared libraries. (#26414)
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5636 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5638 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5639 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5640 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5641 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5645 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5649 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5651 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5652 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5653 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5654 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5655 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5659 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5662 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5666 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5669 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5670 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5675 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5678 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5682 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5684 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5685 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5686 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5687 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5688 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5689 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5691 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5692 remove debian/files properly.
5693 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5694 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5695 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5696 * Removed bogus menu file.
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5700 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5703 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5707 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5710 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5711 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5712 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5713 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5714 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5715 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5719 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5722 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5723 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5724 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5725 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5729 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5736 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5739 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5740 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5742 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5743 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5744 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5745 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5746 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5747 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5751 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5754 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5755 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5756 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5757 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5758 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5759 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5760 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5761 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5762 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5763 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5764 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5765 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5766 passed any switches.
5767 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5771 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5774 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5775 at all for a long while.
5776 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5777 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5778 large chunks in the process.
5779 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5780 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5781 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5786 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5789 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5791 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5796 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5799 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5800 that don't always have the same files in them.
5801 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5802 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5803 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5807 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5811 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5812 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5813 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5814 updating 27 man pages.
5815 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5816 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5817 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5818 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5819 programs act on. (#25247)
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5823 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5827 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5828 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5829 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5830 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5831 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5832 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5837 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5844 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5851 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5854 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5858 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5864 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5867 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5868 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5869 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5870 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5871 package by accident.
5872 * Is version 1.0 next?
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5876 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5879 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5880 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5884 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5887 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5888 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5889 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5890 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5891 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5893 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5898 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5901 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5902 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5906 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5909 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5913 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5916 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5917 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5922 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5928 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5930 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5931 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5932 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5937 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5943 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5946 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5947 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5948 past week. Thanks, guys!
5950 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5951 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5952 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5953 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5954 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5955 would do in the same situation.
5956 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5957 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5959 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5961 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5962 permissions changed.
5963 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5964 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5965 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5966 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5967 files are treated identically.
5968 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5969 * Minor man page fixes.
5970 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5971 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5972 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5976 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5979 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5980 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5981 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5982 use -X multiple times, too.
5983 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5984 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5988 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5991 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5992 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5996 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5999 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6003 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6005 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6006 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6007 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6008 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6009 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6010 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6011 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6012 shape if you're starting a new package.
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6016 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6019 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6023 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6026 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6027 because of missing symlinks.
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6031 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6037 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6039 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6040 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6041 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6042 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6043 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6044 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6046 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6047 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6051 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6053 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6054 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6055 to be changed after the fact :-)
6056 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6060 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6062 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6063 no version string after the -V.
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6067 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6069 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6070 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6075 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6078 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6082 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6084 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6085 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6086 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6087 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6088 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6089 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6090 I always welcome corrections!
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6094 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6100 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6102 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6103 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6104 * Documented this new switch.
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6108 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6110 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6111 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6112 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6113 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6114 no packages use the old behavior.
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6118 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6121 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6122 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6126 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6129 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6133 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6139 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6142 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6146 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6149 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6150 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6151 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6155 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6157 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6161 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6163 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6164 into the source package by accident.
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6168 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6171 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6172 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6173 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6174 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6175 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6176 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6181 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6185 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6186 inspired to implement some of it.
6187 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6191 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6193 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6194 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6198 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6201 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6202 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6206 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6209 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6210 have done.) (#17598)
6212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6214 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6216 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6220 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6226 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6229 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6233 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6235 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6236 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6237 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6241 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6243 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6244 argument processor in perl.
6245 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6246 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6247 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6248 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6252 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6255 type directories. (#16933)
6256 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6257 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6258 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6259 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6260 are supported. (#16935)
6261 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6266 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6268 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6269 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6273 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6275 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6277 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6278 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6279 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6280 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6281 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6282 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6286 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6289 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6290 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6292 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6293 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6294 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6295 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6296 a given package, or -i or -a.
6297 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6298 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6299 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6300 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6301 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6302 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6303 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6304 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6305 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6307 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6308 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6309 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6313 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6315 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6316 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6317 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6322 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6324 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6325 does not have a section.
6327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6329 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6331 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6332 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6333 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6334 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6338 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6340 * Fixed typo #16215.
6342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6344 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6346 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6347 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6348 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6349 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6350 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6351 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6356 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6358 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6359 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6360 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6361 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6366 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6368 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6372 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6378 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6380 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6381 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6382 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6383 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6384 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6385 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6386 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6390 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6392 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6396 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6398 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6399 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6403 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6405 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6406 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6407 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6408 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6412 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6414 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6415 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6419 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6421 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6425 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6427 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6428 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6432 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6434 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6435 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6439 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6441 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6445 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6447 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6448 postinst, postrm, etc.
6450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6452 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6454 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6458 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6461 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6462 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6463 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6464 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6465 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6469 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6471 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6472 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6473 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6477 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6479 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6480 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6484 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6486 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6487 installing package files into.
6488 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6493 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6495 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6497 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6501 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6507 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6509 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6510 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6514 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6516 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6517 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6518 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6519 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6520 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6524 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6526 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6527 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6528 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6529 multiple binary packages.
6530 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6531 should rebuild them with this version.
6532 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6536 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6539 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6543 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6545 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6546 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6550 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6552 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6553 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6554 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6555 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6556 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6557 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6558 debian/README.debian.
6559 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6560 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6561 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6562 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6563 in a few situations.)
6565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6567 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6569 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6573 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6575 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6579 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6581 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6582 * Fixed several man pages.
6584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6586 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6588 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6589 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6590 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6594 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6596 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6597 is ready for general use.
6598 * Added man pages for all commands.
6599 * Multiple binary package support.
6600 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6601 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6602 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6604 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6605 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6606 auto-installed as parameters.
6607 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6609 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6612 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6613 the package build directory it is to act on.
6614 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6615 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6616 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6620 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6622 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6623 ready to replace debstd.
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400