1 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
7 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
9 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
10 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
11 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
16 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
18 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
22 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
25 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
26 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
27 created by using `python' first during build and install.
29 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
34 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
36 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
40 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
42 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
43 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
47 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
49 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
53 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
55 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
59 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
61 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
62 contributed by Modestas Vainius
63 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
64 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
65 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
66 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
67 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
68 that support it. Closes: #480577
69 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
70 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
71 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
73 - Adds support for cmake.
74 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
75 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
77 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
79 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
80 that use them. The options are:
81 --sourcedir, --destdir
82 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
83 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
84 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
85 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
86 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
90 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
96 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
99 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
100 default. Closes: #537140
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
104 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
106 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
107 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
108 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
112 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
115 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
119 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
121 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
122 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
126 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
128 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
129 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
131 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
132 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
133 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
137 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
140 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
141 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
142 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
146 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
149 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
150 warning or deprecation message.
151 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
152 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
153 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
154 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
155 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
156 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
157 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
158 Closes: #534639, #357434
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
162 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
168 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
171 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
172 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
173 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
174 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
176 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
177 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
178 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
182 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
188 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
195 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
198 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
202 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
206 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
207 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
209 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
210 file support. Closes: #494914
211 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
215 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
218 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
219 parameters. Closes: #527256
220 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
221 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
222 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
226 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
230 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
231 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
232 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
236 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
239 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
240 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
241 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
245 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
248 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
249 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
251 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
252 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
253 by triggers). Closes: #521181
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
257 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
261 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
265 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
268 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
269 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
270 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
271 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
276 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
282 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
285 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
286 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
287 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
288 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
289 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
291 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
292 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
293 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
294 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
295 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
296 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
300 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
303 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
304 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
305 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
306 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
307 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
309 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
313 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
315 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
319 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
321 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
322 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
323 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
324 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
325 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
326 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
327 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
328 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
329 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
330 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
331 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
335 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
337 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
338 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
340 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
341 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
342 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
343 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
345 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
346 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
350 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
352 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
353 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
354 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
355 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
356 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
357 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
358 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
360 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
361 that uses them. Affected options are:
362 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
363 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
364 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
365 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
366 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
367 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
368 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
369 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
370 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
371 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
372 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
373 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
377 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
384 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
390 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
392 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
393 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
395 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
396 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
397 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
398 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
399 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
401 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
403 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
404 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
405 rules (see bug #509756).
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
409 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
415 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
416 * Typo. Closes: #493062
417 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
418 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
422 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
425 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
426 empty files. Closes: #490937
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
430 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
436 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
443 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
446 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
447 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
448 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
449 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
454 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
456 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
457 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
458 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
459 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
463 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
466 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
467 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
468 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
469 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
470 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
474 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
476 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
481 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
483 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
484 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
485 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
486 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
487 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
488 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
489 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
490 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
491 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
492 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
496 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
499 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
500 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
501 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
502 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
504 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
505 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
506 breaking backwards compatability.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
510 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
513 message in perl 5.10.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
517 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
523 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Convert copyright file to new format.
526 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
530 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
533 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
537 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
540 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
541 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
542 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
543 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
544 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
545 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
546 logging by dh_listpackages.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
550 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
553 run and there are no packages of that type.
554 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
555 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
556 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
557 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
559 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
560 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
564 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
566 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
567 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
568 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
572 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
575 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
576 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
578 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
579 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
580 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
581 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
582 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
583 planned but not yet implemented.)
584 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
585 if the Makefile has such a target.
586 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
587 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
588 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
589 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
590 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
591 but not yet implemented.)
592 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
593 recommended default, especially when using dh.
594 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
595 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
596 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
598 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
600 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
601 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
603 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
604 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
605 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
610 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
613 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
614 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
618 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
620 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
621 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
622 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
626 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
632 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
638 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
640 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
641 just those installed by the program.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
645 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
648 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
649 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
653 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
656 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
657 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
658 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
659 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
663 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
666 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
667 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
671 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
674 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
675 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
679 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
682 with policy. Closes: #461392
683 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
684 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
685 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
686 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
687 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
691 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
694 Closes: #460340, #460351
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
698 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
701 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
702 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
703 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
704 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
708 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
711 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
712 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
713 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
714 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
715 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
716 package build directory won't work.
717 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
718 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
719 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
720 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
721 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
722 mode. Closes: #459426
723 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
728 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
731 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
735 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
739 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
740 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
741 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
742 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
743 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
744 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
748 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
751 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
752 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
753 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
754 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
758 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
761 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
762 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
763 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
764 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
765 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
769 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
772 debian/package.triggers files.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
776 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
779 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
783 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
786 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
787 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
788 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
789 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
794 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
797 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
801 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
804 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
805 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
807 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
812 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
816 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
817 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
818 * Typo. Closes: #441272
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
822 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
829 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
836 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
839 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
841 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
842 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
843 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
845 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
846 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
847 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
851 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
854 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
855 * Update urls to web page.
856 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
858 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
859 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
863 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
866 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
867 - typo in alternatives call
868 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
870 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
871 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
875 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
878 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
883 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
889 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
891 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
895 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
898 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
900 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
901 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
902 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
903 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
904 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
905 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
906 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
907 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
908 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
909 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
910 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
914 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
917 package install. Closes: #415717
918 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
919 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
920 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
921 script and then remove the python files.
922 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
923 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
924 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
925 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
926 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
927 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
928 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
929 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
930 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
931 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
932 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
933 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
934 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
938 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Correct typo in french translation
944 * Typo. Closes: #400571
945 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
947 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
949 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
950 Closes: #406921, #381940
951 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
953 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
954 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
955 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
956 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
957 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
958 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
959 specified). Closes: #381851
960 * Misc minor changes.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
964 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
971 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
972 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
976 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
982 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
983 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
986 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
987 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
989 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
990 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
991 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
992 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
996 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
999 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1002 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1006 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1012 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1018 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1019 a difficult situation.
1020 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1021 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1022 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1023 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1024 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1025 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1026 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1027 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1028 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1029 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1033 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Non-maintainer upload.
1036 * Update of dh_python
1037 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1038 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1040 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1041 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1042 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1043 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1044 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1046 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1048 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Non-maintainer upload.
1051 * Update of dh_python
1052 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1053 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1054 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1055 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1056 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1057 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1058 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1059 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1060 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1061 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1063 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1064 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1065 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1066 the not too-distant future).
1067 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1068 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1069 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1070 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1071 thus made the build fail.
1073 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1075 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Non-maintainer upload.
1078 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1080 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1082 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1085 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1086 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1087 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1088 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1089 package. Closes: #301424
1090 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1091 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1092 fonts). Closes: #372686
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1096 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1102 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1103 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1104 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1105 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1106 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1107 above, but already depends on that.
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1111 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1114 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1115 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1116 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1117 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1118 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1122 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1128 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1134 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1135 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1139 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1142 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1146 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1150 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1151 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1152 new version (0.24.1).
1153 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1154 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1157 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1158 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1159 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1160 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1161 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1162 new directory on their own.
1163 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1164 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1168 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1171 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1172 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1173 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1174 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1178 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1181 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1182 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1183 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1184 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1185 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1189 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1195 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1199 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1200 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1204 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1205 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1209 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1211 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1212 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1214 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1215 ignored. Closes: #337664
1217 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1222 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1228 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1233 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1234 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1235 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1236 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1237 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1238 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1239 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1243 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1246 version. Closes: #350607
1247 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1248 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1249 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1250 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1254 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1257 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1258 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1259 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1263 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1270 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1276 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1279 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1283 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1286 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1287 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1288 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1289 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1290 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1291 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1295 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1298 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1299 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1304 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1307 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1311 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1314 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1318 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1321 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1322 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1323 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1324 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1325 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1326 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1330 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1334 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1335 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1336 link. Closes: #346405
1337 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1339 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1340 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1341 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1342 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1343 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1344 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1345 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1349 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1356 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1362 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1365 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1369 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1372 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1377 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1381 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1382 installed. Closes: #342033
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1386 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1389 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1390 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1391 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1396 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1402 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1408 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1412 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1413 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1414 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1418 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1421 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1426 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1433 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1439 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1442 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1443 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1444 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1445 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1446 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1447 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1448 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1450 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1454 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1457 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1458 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1462 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1465 in standard man dirs.
1466 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1470 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1476 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1479 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1484 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1491 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1498 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1501 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1502 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1506 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1509 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1510 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1511 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1513 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1515 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1521 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1527 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1530 mode. Closes: #324161
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1534 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1537 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1538 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1539 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1540 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1545 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1548 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1549 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1550 is necesary for sanity.
1551 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1552 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1557 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1559 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1560 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1564 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1567 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1571 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1577 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1580 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1581 released, so use at your own risk.
1582 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1583 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1585 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1586 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1587 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1588 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1589 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1590 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1591 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1592 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1593 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1594 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1595 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1596 including twice per config file line now..
1597 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1598 and simplfy the rules file.
1599 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1600 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1601 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1603 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1604 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1608 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1611 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1615 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1618 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1622 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1625 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1629 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1632 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1633 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1634 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1635 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1636 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1637 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1641 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1644 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1645 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1646 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1651 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1654 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1655 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1660 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1663 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1664 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1665 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1670 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1673 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1674 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1675 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1679 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1685 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1692 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1695 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1696 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1697 unknown. Closes: #282924
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1701 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1708 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Spanish man page updates.
1711 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1716 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1722 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1725 * dh_desktop: reindent
1726 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1727 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1731 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1737 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1739 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1743 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1745 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1749 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1752 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1753 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1757 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1763 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1769 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1776 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1779 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1783 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1786 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1787 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1788 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1789 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1790 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1791 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1793 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1794 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1795 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1796 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1797 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1798 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1799 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1800 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1801 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1802 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1803 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1804 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1805 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1806 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1807 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1808 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1812 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1819 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1822 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1826 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1829 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1833 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1836 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1840 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1843 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1847 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1853 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1859 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1865 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1868 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1869 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1870 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1874 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1877 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1881 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1884 but occasionally right and necessary.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1888 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1891 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1892 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1893 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1894 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1895 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1899 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1902 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1904 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1905 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1906 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1907 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1908 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1909 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1910 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1911 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1912 postinst scripts for udebs.
1913 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1917 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1920 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1922 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1923 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1927 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1933 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1940 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1947 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1950 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1954 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1957 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1961 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1964 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1967 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1968 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1972 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1978 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1981 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1985 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1988 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1989 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1990 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1992 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1994 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1995 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1996 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2000 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2003 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2008 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2011 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2012 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2013 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2018 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2024 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2033 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2034 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2035 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2036 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2037 associated -dbg packages.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2041 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2044 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2048 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2051 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2055 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2058 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2062 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2065 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2070 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2073 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2077 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2080 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2085 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2088 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2092 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2096 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2097 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2098 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2099 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2100 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2101 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2102 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2103 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2104 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2105 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2109 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2112 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2120 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2121 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2125 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2128 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2129 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2134 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2137 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2141 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2144 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2148 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2151 out section number. Closes: #204731
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2155 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2162 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2174 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2177 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2178 removal. Closes: #204286
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2185 renaming. Closes: #203548
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2189 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2192 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2193 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2203 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2209 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2215 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2218 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2219 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2220 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2224 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2227 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2228 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2248 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2253 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2256 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2263 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2265 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2266 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2273 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2278 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2281 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2285 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2293 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2297 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2300 it break hard links (see #188663).
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2307 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2317 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2321 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2322 debconf-mergetemplates
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2326 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2329 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2333 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2336 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2340 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2343 * Update debhelper(1).
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2347 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2350 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2351 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2352 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2353 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2354 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2358 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2361 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2362 the shell. Closes: #178524
2363 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2367 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2370 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2374 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2377 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2381 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2384 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2385 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2386 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2387 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2392 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2395 files from installation.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2399 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2402 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2403 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2407 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2410 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2414 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2417 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2421 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2427 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2433 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2437 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2438 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2440 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2444 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2447 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2448 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2449 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2450 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2454 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2457 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2461 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2464 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2465 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2469 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2473 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2478 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2488 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2489 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2490 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2498 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2499 practice. Closes: #163303
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2503 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2516 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2519 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2521 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2522 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2523 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2524 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2525 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2529 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2532 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2537 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2550 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2553 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2576 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2583 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2586 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2587 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2588 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2589 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2594 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2600 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2607 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2610 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2611 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2618 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2619 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2620 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2621 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2622 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2626 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2629 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2631 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2636 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2639 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2646 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2647 right thing. Closes: #150644
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2651 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Stupid, evil typo.
2654 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2658 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2665 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2668 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2669 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2674 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2680 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2683 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2687 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2690 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2691 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2696 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2699 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2709 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2712 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2713 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2717 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2723 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Removing perl warning message.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2729 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2732 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2733 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2734 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2735 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2736 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2737 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2738 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2739 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2743 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2749 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2756 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2759 debconf-mergetemplate.
2760 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2761 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2765 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2768 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2769 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2770 dh_install, which ...
2771 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2772 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2773 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2774 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2775 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2776 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2777 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2778 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2779 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2780 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2781 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2782 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2783 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2784 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2785 other minor changes.
2786 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2787 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2788 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2789 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2790 course there's -X ..)
2791 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2792 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2793 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2795 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2796 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2797 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2798 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2799 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2804 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2810 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2813 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2817 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2823 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2829 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2835 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2841 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2844 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2845 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2846 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2847 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2849 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2850 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2854 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2860 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2863 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2867 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2870 upset. Closes: #131322
2872 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2874 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2877 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2878 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2879 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2880 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2881 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2882 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2883 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2884 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2885 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2886 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2887 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2888 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2889 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2890 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2891 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2893 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2897 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2900 - Better indenting of generated code.
2901 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2905 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2909 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2910 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2911 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2912 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2913 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2914 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2915 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2919 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2922 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2926 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2929 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2930 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2931 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2932 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2933 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2934 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2935 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2936 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2937 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2938 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2939 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2940 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2941 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2942 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2943 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2948 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2954 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2957 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2958 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2962 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2965 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2966 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2970 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2976 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2979 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2980 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2981 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2982 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2983 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2988 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2994 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2997 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3001 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3004 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3009 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3015 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3018 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3022 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3028 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3032 Also some indentation fixes.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3036 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3039 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3040 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3041 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3042 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3043 Closes: #106514, #85520
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3047 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3053 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3059 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3065 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3071 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3077 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3080 change it in debhelper v4..
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3084 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3090 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3093 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3097 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3100 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3104 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3110 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3113 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3114 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3115 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3116 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3117 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3118 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3119 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3120 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3121 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3122 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3123 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3124 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3128 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3131 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3135 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3142 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3145 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3146 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3147 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3148 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3149 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3150 program those options go to. So, for example,
3151 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3152 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3153 something complex. Closes: #89311
3154 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3158 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3161 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3162 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3163 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3167 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3170 through loop. Closes: #98598
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3174 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Missing semi-colon.
3177 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3178 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3182 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3185 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3186 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3187 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3191 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3194 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3195 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3199 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3202 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3206 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3209 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3210 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3214 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3217 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3218 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3219 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3223 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3226 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3227 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3228 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3232 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3235 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3239 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3245 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3251 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3257 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3263 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3266 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3270 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3273 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3274 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3275 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3276 followed. Closes: #85483
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3280 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3282 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3283 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3284 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3288 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3291 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3292 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3293 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3294 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3295 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3296 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3297 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3298 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3299 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3300 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3301 Closes: #88464, #77743
3302 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3303 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3304 us to deal with that gracefully.
3305 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3307 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3308 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3309 a while, Closes: #51225
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3313 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3319 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3322 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3326 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3330 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3335 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3338 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3339 don't make packlist files.
3340 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3341 debhelper coding standards.
3342 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3343 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3347 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3350 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3354 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3357 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3358 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3359 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3360 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3361 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3362 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3363 but is mildly deprecated.
3364 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3365 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3366 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3367 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3368 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3369 switching to statoverrides..
3370 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3371 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3372 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3373 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3374 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3375 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3377 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3378 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3379 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3380 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3381 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3382 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3383 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3384 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3385 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3387 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3388 variable names, pod man pages).
3389 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3390 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3391 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3392 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3393 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3394 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3395 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3399 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3405 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3412 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3415 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3419 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3421 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3422 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3423 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3427 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3429 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3430 they were previously ignored.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3434 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3436 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3437 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3441 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3443 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3444 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3445 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3449 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3451 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3455 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3457 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3458 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3462 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3464 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3465 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3466 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3467 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3468 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3469 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3470 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3471 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3472 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3473 it is an obsolete program.
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3477 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3479 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3483 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3487 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3489 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3493 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3495 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3497 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3499 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3503 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3509 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * typo: Closes, #78567
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3515 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3521 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3527 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3530 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3531 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3532 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3533 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3534 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3538 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3541 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3546 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3549 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3550 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3551 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3552 backwards-compatability.
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3556 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3559 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3560 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3561 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3562 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3563 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3564 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3566 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3567 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3568 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3570 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3572 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3573 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3574 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3575 should now be raised to severity important..
3576 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3577 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3581 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3584 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3589 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3595 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3601 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3607 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3614 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3617 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3618 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3619 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3620 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3624 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3630 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3633 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3634 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3635 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3636 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3637 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3638 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3643 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3646 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3650 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3656 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3659 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3664 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3667 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3668 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3669 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3670 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3674 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3678 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3681 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3684 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3685 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3688 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3690 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3691 the TODO entry about it.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3695 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3702 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3705 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3706 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3710 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3713 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3714 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3715 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3716 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3720 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3726 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3733 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3736 (this appears to be logal).
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3740 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3743 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3744 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3745 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3746 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3750 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3756 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3759 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3760 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3761 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3762 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3766 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3772 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3775 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3779 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3786 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3789 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3790 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3791 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3796 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3803 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3809 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3812 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3813 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3814 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3815 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3816 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3817 notice until v2 is complete.
3818 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3819 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3820 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3821 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3822 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3823 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3825 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3826 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3827 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3828 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3832 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3838 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3845 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3848 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3852 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3859 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3862 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3863 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3864 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3865 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3870 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3873 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3874 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3875 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3880 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3883 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3884 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3888 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3891 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3895 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3898 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3902 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3909 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3912 depend on the build and install targets.
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3916 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3919 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3923 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3936 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3942 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3945 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3946 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3947 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3948 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3949 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3950 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3952 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3953 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3954 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3955 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3956 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3957 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3958 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3962 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3968 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3974 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3977 right place. Closes: #55065
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3981 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3988 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3991 * Copyright date updates.
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3995 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3998 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4003 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4009 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4016 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4022 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4028 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4034 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4037 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4038 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4039 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4040 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4041 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4042 bits until all files have been registered.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4046 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_installmanpages:
4049 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4050 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4051 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4052 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4053 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4054 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4055 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4056 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4057 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4058 otherwise change the result at all.
4060 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4061 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4062 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4063 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4064 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4069 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4075 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4078 act on files that don't exist.
4079 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4080 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4081 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4083 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4084 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4085 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4086 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4090 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4096 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4102 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4105 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4109 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4112 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4114 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4115 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4116 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4120 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4123 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4124 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4125 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4126 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4127 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4128 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4129 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4131 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4133 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4137 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4144 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4156 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4159 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4163 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4169 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4175 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4178 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4179 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4180 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4181 I made some changes, though:
4182 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4183 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4184 that is a clear violation of policy.
4185 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4186 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4187 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4188 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4189 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4190 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4191 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4192 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4193 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4195 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4199 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4205 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4208 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4215 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4216 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4221 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4227 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4234 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4237 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4238 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4239 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4240 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4241 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4242 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4243 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4247 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4257 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4258 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4268 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4271 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4278 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4279 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4285 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4294 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4298 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4301 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4302 for the dependancies to be generated.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4306 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4309 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4313 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4316 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4317 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4318 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4323 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4326 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4327 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4343 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4346 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4350 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4356 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4359 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4360 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4361 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4362 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4363 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4364 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4365 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4366 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4367 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4368 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4369 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4370 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4377 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4378 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4380 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4381 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4382 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4383 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4384 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4385 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4387 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4388 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4392 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4395 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4406 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4409 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4414 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4417 for building debhelper.
4418 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4422 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4429 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4432 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4436 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4439 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4440 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4441 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4442 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4443 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4444 it's always available.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4448 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4451 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4452 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4453 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4457 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4460 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4461 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4465 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4471 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4474 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4478 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4484 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4487 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4488 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4489 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4493 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4496 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4501 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4504 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4505 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4507 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4508 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4512 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4518 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4524 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4527 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4531 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4534 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4535 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4537 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4541 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4544 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4545 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4546 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4550 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4553 things if CDPATH is set.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4557 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4563 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4566 seems to make sense for the transition.
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4570 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4573 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4578 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4581 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4582 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4586 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4589 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4593 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4596 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4597 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4598 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4599 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4609 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4612 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4613 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4614 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4615 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4616 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4617 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4618 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4619 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4620 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4621 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4626 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4629 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4630 * README: mention doc/v2
4631 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4632 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4636 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4638 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4639 be using this script RSN.
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4643 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4646 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4647 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4648 more than 1 init script.
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4652 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4655 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4659 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * Changed perl version detection.
4662 * Changed call to find.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4666 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4669 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4671 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4676 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * Really include dh_installpam.
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4682 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4685 * Wrote man page for same.
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4689 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4692 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4693 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4698 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4705 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4708 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4709 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4710 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4711 x bit was being set!
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4715 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4718 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4719 well. (Closes: 38900)
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4723 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4726 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4727 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4731 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4737 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4744 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4750 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4753 help from Julian Gilbey.
4754 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4755 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4756 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4757 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4758 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4759 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4760 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4765 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4771 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4778 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4784 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4790 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4793 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4797 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4800 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4804 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4807 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4811 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4817 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4820 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4824 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4830 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4836 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4839 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4840 may be deleted. (#35845)
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4844 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * Various man page enhancements.
4847 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4852 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4855 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4856 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4860 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4863 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4864 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4865 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4867 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4868 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4873 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4879 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * Another very minor typo fix.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4885 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * Very minor typo fix.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4891 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4894 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4895 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4899 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4905 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4908 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4909 variables properly (#34850).
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4913 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4919 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4922 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4923 (automatically generated by build process).
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4927 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4929 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4933 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4936 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4937 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4939 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4943 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4946 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4950 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * README: minor typo fix.
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4956 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4959 leave it at that. :-)
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4963 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4969 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4975 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4978 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4979 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4980 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4984 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4987 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4991 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4994 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4998 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5001 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5002 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5003 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5004 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5008 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5011 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5012 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5013 Craig Small for spotting this.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5017 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5020 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5021 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5025 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5031 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5034 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5038 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5040 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5041 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5042 working on the last version of debhelper.
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5046 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5049 being made. (#23255)
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5053 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5059 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5062 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5066 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5069 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5070 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5071 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5072 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5076 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5079 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5080 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5081 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5082 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5084 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5085 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5087 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5092 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5098 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5104 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5107 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5108 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5109 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5110 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5111 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5112 suidregister actually supports it.
5113 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5114 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5118 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5125 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5128 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5129 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5130 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5131 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5132 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5133 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5134 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5138 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5140 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5141 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5145 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5148 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5149 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5150 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5151 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5155 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5158 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5160 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5161 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5162 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5163 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5164 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5165 effect, either. (#30118)
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5169 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5175 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5178 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5179 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5183 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5189 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5192 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5193 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5194 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5195 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5199 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5202 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5203 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5207 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5213 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5216 packages, painlessly.
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5220 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5226 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5232 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5238 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * The perl conversion is complete.
5242 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5244 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5245 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5246 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5251 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5254 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5255 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5256 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5260 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5263 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5265 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5267 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5268 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5272 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5275 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5276 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5280 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5286 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5289 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5290 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5291 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5292 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5293 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5297 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5300 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5301 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5302 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5303 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5307 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5310 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5314 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5317 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5318 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5319 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5320 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5321 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5322 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5323 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5324 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5328 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5334 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5337 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5338 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5339 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5344 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5347 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5351 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5354 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5358 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5361 sections of shared libraries.
5362 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5363 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5364 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5365 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5366 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5367 things you don't want them to.
5368 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5369 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5373 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5376 shared libraries. (#26414)
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5380 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5382 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5383 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5384 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5385 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5389 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5393 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5395 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5396 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5397 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5398 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5399 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5403 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5406 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5410 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5413 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5414 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5419 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5422 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5426 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5429 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5430 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5431 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5432 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5433 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5435 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5436 remove debian/files properly.
5437 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5438 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5439 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5440 * Removed bogus menu file.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5444 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5447 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5451 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5454 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5455 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5456 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5457 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5458 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5459 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5463 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5466 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5467 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5468 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5469 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5473 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5480 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5483 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5484 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5486 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5487 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5488 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5489 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5490 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5491 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5495 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5498 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5499 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5500 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5501 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5502 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5503 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5504 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5505 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5506 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5507 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5508 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5509 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5510 passed any switches.
5511 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5515 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5518 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5519 at all for a long while.
5520 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5521 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5522 large chunks in the process.
5523 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5524 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5525 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5530 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5533 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5535 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5540 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5543 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5544 that don't always have the same files in them.
5545 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5546 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5547 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5551 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5555 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5556 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5557 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5558 updating 27 man pages.
5559 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5560 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5561 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5562 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5563 programs act on. (#25247)
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5567 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5571 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5572 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5573 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5574 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5575 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5576 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5581 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5588 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5595 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5598 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5602 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5608 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5611 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5612 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5613 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5614 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5615 package by accident.
5616 * Is version 1.0 next?
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5620 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5623 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5624 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5628 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5631 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5632 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5633 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5634 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5635 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5637 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5642 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5645 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5646 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5650 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5653 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5657 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5660 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5661 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5666 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5672 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5675 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5676 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5681 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5687 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5690 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5691 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5692 past week. Thanks, guys!
5694 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5695 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5696 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5697 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5698 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5699 would do in the same situation.
5700 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5701 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5703 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5705 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5706 permissions changed.
5707 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5708 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5709 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5710 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5711 files are treated identically.
5712 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5713 * Minor man page fixes.
5714 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5715 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5716 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5720 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5723 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5724 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5725 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5726 use -X multiple times, too.
5727 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5728 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5732 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5735 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5736 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5740 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5743 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5747 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5749 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5750 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5751 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5752 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5753 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5754 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5755 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5756 shape if you're starting a new package.
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5760 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5763 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5767 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5770 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5771 because of missing symlinks.
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5775 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5781 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5784 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5785 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5786 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5787 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5788 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5790 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5791 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5795 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5797 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5798 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5799 to be changed after the fact :-)
5800 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5804 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5806 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5807 no version string after the -V.
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5811 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5813 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5814 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5819 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5822 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5826 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5829 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5830 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5831 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5832 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5833 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5834 I always welcome corrections!
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5838 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5844 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5847 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5848 * Documented this new switch.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5852 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5855 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5856 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5857 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5858 no packages use the old behavior.
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5862 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5865 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5866 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5870 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5873 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5877 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5883 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5885 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5886 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5890 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5893 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5894 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5895 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5899 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5905 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5908 into the source package by accident.
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5912 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5915 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5916 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5917 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5918 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5919 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5920 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5925 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5929 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5930 inspired to implement some of it.
5931 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5935 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5938 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5942 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5944 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5945 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5946 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5950 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5952 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5953 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5954 have done.) (#17598)
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5958 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5964 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5970 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5973 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5977 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5980 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5981 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5985 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5988 argument processor in perl.
5989 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5990 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5991 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5992 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5996 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5999 type directories. (#16933)
6000 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6001 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6002 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6003 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6004 are supported. (#16935)
6005 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6010 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6013 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6017 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6021 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6022 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6023 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6024 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6025 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6026 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6030 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6033 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6034 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6036 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6037 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6038 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6039 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6040 a given package, or -i or -a.
6041 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6042 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6043 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6044 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6045 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6046 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6047 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6048 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6049 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6051 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6052 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6053 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6057 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6059 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6060 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6061 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6066 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6069 does not have a section.
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6073 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6076 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6077 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6078 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6082 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6084 * Fixed typo #16215.
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6088 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6091 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6092 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6093 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6094 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6095 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6100 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6102 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6103 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6104 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6105 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6110 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6116 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6118 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6122 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6124 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6125 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6126 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6127 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6128 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6129 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6130 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6134 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6140 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6143 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6147 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6149 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6150 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6151 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6152 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6156 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6159 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6163 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6169 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6171 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6172 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6176 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6178 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6179 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6183 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6185 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6189 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6191 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6192 postinst, postrm, etc.
6194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6196 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6198 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6202 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6204 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6205 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6206 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6207 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6208 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6209 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6213 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6216 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6217 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6221 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6223 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6224 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6228 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6231 installing package files into.
6232 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6237 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6241 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6245 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6251 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6253 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6254 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6258 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6260 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6261 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6262 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6263 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6264 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6268 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6270 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6271 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6272 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6273 multiple binary packages.
6274 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6275 should rebuild them with this version.
6276 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6280 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6282 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6283 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6287 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6290 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6294 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6296 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6297 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6298 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6299 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6300 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6301 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6302 debian/README.debian.
6303 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6304 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6305 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6306 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6307 in a few situations.)
6309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6311 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6313 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6317 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6319 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6323 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6326 * Fixed several man pages.
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6330 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6333 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6334 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6338 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6340 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6341 is ready for general use.
6342 * Added man pages for all commands.
6343 * Multiple binary package support.
6344 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6345 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6346 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6348 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6349 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6350 auto-installed as parameters.
6351 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6353 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6356 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6357 the package build directory it is to act on.
6358 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6359 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6360 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6364 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6366 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6367 ready to replace debstd.
6369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400