1 debhelper (7.3.17) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if the package
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:19:55 -0400
8 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
12 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
13 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
14 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
15 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
16 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
19 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
20 the default. Closes: #538201
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
25 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
29 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
30 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
31 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
32 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
33 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
35 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
36 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
37 * Above Closes: #491117
38 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
43 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
49 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
50 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
51 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
55 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
58 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
59 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
60 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
61 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
62 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
67 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
70 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
71 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
75 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
77 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
81 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
83 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
84 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
86 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
87 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
88 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
92 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
94 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
95 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
99 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
105 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
107 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
108 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
109 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
114 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
116 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
120 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
123 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
124 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
125 created by using `python' first during build and install.
127 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
132 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
134 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
138 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
140 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
141 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
145 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
147 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
151 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
153 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
157 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
159 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
160 contributed by Modestas Vainius
161 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
162 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
163 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
164 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
165 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
166 that support it. Closes: #480577
167 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
168 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
169 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
171 - Adds support for cmake.
172 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
173 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
175 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
177 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
178 that use them. The options are:
179 --sourcedir, --destdir
180 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
181 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
182 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
183 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
184 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
188 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
194 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
197 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
198 default. Closes: #537140
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
202 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
205 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
206 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
210 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
213 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
217 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
220 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
224 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
227 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
229 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
230 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
231 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
235 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
238 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
239 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
240 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
244 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
247 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
248 warning or deprecation message.
249 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
250 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
251 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
252 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
253 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
254 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
255 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
256 Closes: #534639, #357434
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
260 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
266 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
269 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
270 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
271 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
272 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
274 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
275 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
276 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
280 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
286 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
293 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
296 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
300 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
304 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
305 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
307 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
308 file support. Closes: #494914
309 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
313 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
316 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
317 parameters. Closes: #527256
318 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
319 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
320 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
324 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
328 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
329 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
330 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
334 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
336 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
337 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
338 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
339 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
343 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
346 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
347 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
349 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
350 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
351 by triggers). Closes: #521181
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
355 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
359 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
363 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
366 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
367 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
368 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
369 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
374 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
380 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
383 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
384 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
385 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
386 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
387 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
389 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
390 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
391 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
392 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
393 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
394 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
398 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
401 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
402 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
403 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
404 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
405 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
407 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
411 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
413 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
417 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
419 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
420 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
421 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
422 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
423 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
424 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
425 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
426 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
427 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
428 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
429 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
433 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
435 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
436 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
438 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
439 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
440 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
441 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
443 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
444 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
448 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
450 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
451 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
452 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
453 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
454 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
455 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
456 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
458 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
459 that uses them. Affected options are:
460 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
461 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
462 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
463 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
464 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
465 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
466 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
467 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
468 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
469 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
470 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
471 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
475 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
482 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
488 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
490 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
491 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
493 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
494 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
495 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
496 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
497 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
499 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
501 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
502 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
503 rules (see bug #509756).
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
507 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
513 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
514 * Typo. Closes: #493062
515 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
516 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
520 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
523 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
524 empty files. Closes: #490937
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
528 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
534 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
541 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
544 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
545 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
546 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
547 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
552 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
554 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
555 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
556 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
557 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
561 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
564 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
565 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
566 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
567 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
568 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
572 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
579 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
581 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
582 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
583 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
584 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
585 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
586 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
587 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
588 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
589 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
590 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
594 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
597 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
598 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
599 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
600 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
602 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
603 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
604 breaking backwards compatability.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
608 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
611 message in perl 5.10.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
615 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
621 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Convert copyright file to new format.
624 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
628 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
631 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
635 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
638 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
639 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
640 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
641 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
642 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
643 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
644 logging by dh_listpackages.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
648 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
651 run and there are no packages of that type.
652 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
653 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
654 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
655 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
657 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
658 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
662 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
664 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
665 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
666 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
670 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
673 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
674 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
676 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
677 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
678 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
679 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
680 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
681 planned but not yet implemented.)
682 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
683 if the Makefile has such a target.
684 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
685 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
686 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
687 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
688 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
689 but not yet implemented.)
690 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
691 recommended default, especially when using dh.
692 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
693 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
694 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
696 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
698 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
699 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
701 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
702 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
703 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
708 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
711 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
712 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
716 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
718 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
719 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
720 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
724 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
730 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
736 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
739 just those installed by the program.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
743 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
746 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
747 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
751 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
754 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
755 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
756 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
757 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
761 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
764 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
765 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
769 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
772 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
773 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
777 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
780 with policy. Closes: #461392
781 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
782 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
783 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
784 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
785 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
789 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
792 Closes: #460340, #460351
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
796 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
799 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
800 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
801 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
802 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
806 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
809 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
810 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
811 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
812 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
813 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
814 package build directory won't work.
815 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
816 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
817 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
818 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
819 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
820 mode. Closes: #459426
821 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
826 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
829 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
833 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
837 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
838 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
839 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
840 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
841 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
842 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
846 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
849 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
850 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
851 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
852 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
856 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
859 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
860 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
861 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
862 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
863 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
867 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
870 debian/package.triggers files.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
874 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
877 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
881 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
884 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
885 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
886 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
887 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
892 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
895 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
899 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
902 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
903 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
905 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
910 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
914 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
915 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
916 * Typo. Closes: #441272
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
920 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
927 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
934 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
937 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
939 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
940 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
941 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
943 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
944 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
945 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
949 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
952 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
953 * Update urls to web page.
954 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
956 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
957 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
961 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
964 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
965 - typo in alternatives call
966 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
968 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
969 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
973 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
976 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
981 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
987 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
993 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
996 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
998 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
999 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1000 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1001 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1002 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1003 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1004 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1005 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1006 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1007 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1008 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1012 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1015 package install. Closes: #415717
1016 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1017 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1018 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1019 script and then remove the python files.
1020 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1021 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1022 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1023 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1024 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1025 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1026 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1027 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1028 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1029 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1030 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1031 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1032 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1036 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Correct typo in french translation
1042 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1043 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1045 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1047 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1048 Closes: #406921, #381940
1049 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1051 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1052 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1053 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1054 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1055 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1056 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1057 specified). Closes: #381851
1058 * Misc minor changes.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1062 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1069 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1070 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1074 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1080 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1081 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1084 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1085 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1087 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1088 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1089 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1090 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1094 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1097 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1100 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1104 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1110 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1116 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1117 a difficult situation.
1118 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1119 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1120 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1121 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1122 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1123 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1124 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1125 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1126 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1127 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1131 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Non-maintainer upload.
1134 * Update of dh_python
1135 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1136 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1138 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1139 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1140 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1141 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1142 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1144 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1146 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Non-maintainer upload.
1149 * Update of dh_python
1150 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1151 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1152 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1153 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1154 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1155 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1156 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1157 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1158 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1159 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1161 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1162 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1163 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1164 the not too-distant future).
1165 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1166 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1167 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1168 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1169 thus made the build fail.
1171 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1173 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Non-maintainer upload.
1176 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1178 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1180 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1183 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1184 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1185 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1186 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1187 package. Closes: #301424
1188 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1189 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1190 fonts). Closes: #372686
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1194 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1200 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1201 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1202 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1203 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1204 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1205 above, but already depends on that.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1209 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1212 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1213 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1214 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1215 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1216 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1220 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1226 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1232 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1233 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1237 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1240 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1244 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1248 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1249 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1250 new version (0.24.1).
1251 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1252 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1255 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1256 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1257 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1258 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1259 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1260 new directory on their own.
1261 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1262 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1266 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1269 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1270 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1271 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1272 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1276 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1279 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1280 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1281 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1282 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1283 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1287 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1293 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1297 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1298 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1302 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1303 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1307 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1309 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1310 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1312 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1313 ignored. Closes: #337664
1315 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1320 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1326 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1331 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1332 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1333 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1334 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1335 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1336 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1337 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1341 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1344 version. Closes: #350607
1345 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1346 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1347 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1348 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1352 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1355 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1356 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1357 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1361 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1368 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1374 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1377 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1381 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1384 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1385 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1386 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1387 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1388 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1389 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1393 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1396 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1397 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1402 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1405 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1409 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1412 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1416 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1419 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1420 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1421 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1422 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1423 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1424 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1428 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1432 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1433 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1434 link. Closes: #346405
1435 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1437 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1438 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1439 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1440 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1441 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1442 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1443 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1447 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1454 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1460 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1463 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1467 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1470 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1475 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1479 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1480 installed. Closes: #342033
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1484 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1487 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1488 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1489 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1494 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1500 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1506 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1510 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1511 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1512 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1516 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1519 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1524 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1531 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1537 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1540 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1541 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1542 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1543 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1544 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1545 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1546 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1548 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1552 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1555 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1556 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1560 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1563 in standard man dirs.
1564 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1568 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1574 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1577 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1582 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1589 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1596 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1599 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1600 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1604 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1607 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1608 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1609 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1611 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1613 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1619 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1625 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1628 mode. Closes: #324161
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1632 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1635 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1636 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1637 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1638 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1643 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1646 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1647 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1648 is necesary for sanity.
1649 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1650 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1655 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1657 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1658 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1662 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1665 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1669 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1675 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1678 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1679 released, so use at your own risk.
1680 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1681 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1683 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1684 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1685 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1686 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1687 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1688 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1689 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1690 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1691 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1692 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1693 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1694 including twice per config file line now..
1695 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1696 and simplfy the rules file.
1697 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1698 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1699 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1701 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1702 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1706 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1709 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1713 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1716 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1720 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1723 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1727 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1730 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1731 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1732 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1733 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1734 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1735 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1739 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1742 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1743 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1744 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1749 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1752 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1753 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1758 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1761 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1762 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1763 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1768 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1771 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1772 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1773 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1777 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1783 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1790 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1793 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1794 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1795 unknown. Closes: #282924
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1799 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1806 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Spanish man page updates.
1809 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1814 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1820 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1823 * dh_desktop: reindent
1824 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1825 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1829 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1835 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1837 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1841 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1843 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1847 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1850 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1851 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1855 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1861 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1867 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1874 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1877 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1881 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1884 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1885 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1886 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1887 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1888 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1889 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1891 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1892 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1893 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1894 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1895 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1896 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1897 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1898 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1899 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1900 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1901 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1902 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1903 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1904 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1905 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1906 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1910 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1917 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1920 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1924 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1927 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1931 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1934 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1938 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1941 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1945 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1951 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1957 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1963 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1966 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1967 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1968 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1972 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1975 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1979 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1982 but occasionally right and necessary.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1986 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1989 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1990 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1991 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1992 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1993 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1997 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2000 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2002 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2003 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2004 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2005 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2006 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2007 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2008 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2009 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2010 postinst scripts for udebs.
2011 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2015 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2018 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2020 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2021 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2025 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2031 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2038 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2045 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2048 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2052 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2055 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2059 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2062 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2065 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2066 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2070 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2076 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2079 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2083 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2086 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2087 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2088 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2090 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2092 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2093 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2094 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2098 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2101 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2106 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2109 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2110 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2111 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2116 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2122 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2128 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2131 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2132 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2133 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2134 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2135 associated -dbg packages.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2139 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2142 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2146 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2149 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2156 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2160 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2163 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2171 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2178 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2183 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2186 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2190 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2194 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2195 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2196 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2197 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2198 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2199 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2200 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2201 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2202 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2203 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2207 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2210 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2215 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2218 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2219 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2226 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2227 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2235 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2242 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2246 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2249 out section number. Closes: #204731
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2253 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2266 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2272 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2275 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2276 removal. Closes: #204286
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2283 renaming. Closes: #203548
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2287 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2290 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2291 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2307 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2313 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2316 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2317 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2318 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2325 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2326 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2346 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2354 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2358 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2361 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2363 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2364 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2371 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2379 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2391 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2395 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2398 it break hard links (see #188663).
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2402 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2405 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2409 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2415 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2419 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2420 debconf-mergetemplates
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2424 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2427 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2431 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2434 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2438 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2441 * Update debhelper(1).
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2445 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2448 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2449 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2450 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2451 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2452 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2456 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2459 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2460 the shell. Closes: #178524
2461 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2465 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2468 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2472 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2475 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2479 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2482 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2483 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2484 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2485 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2490 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2493 files from installation.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2497 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2500 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2501 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2505 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2508 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2512 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2515 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2519 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2525 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2531 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2535 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2536 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2538 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2542 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2545 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2546 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2547 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2548 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2552 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2555 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2559 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2562 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2563 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2567 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2571 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2576 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2582 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2586 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2587 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2588 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2593 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2596 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2597 practice. Closes: #163303
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2607 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2617 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2619 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2620 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2621 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2622 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2623 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2627 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2630 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2641 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2648 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2651 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2656 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2668 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2674 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2681 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2684 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2685 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2686 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2687 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2698 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2705 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2708 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2709 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2713 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2716 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2717 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2718 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2719 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2720 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2724 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2727 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2729 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2734 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2737 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2741 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2744 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2745 right thing. Closes: #150644
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2749 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Stupid, evil typo.
2752 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2756 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2763 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2766 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2767 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2772 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2778 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2781 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2788 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2789 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2794 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2797 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2801 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2807 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2810 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2811 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2815 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2821 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Removing perl warning message.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2830 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2831 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2832 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2833 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2834 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2835 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2836 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2837 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2841 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2847 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2854 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2857 debconf-mergetemplate.
2858 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2859 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2866 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2867 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2868 dh_install, which ...
2869 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2870 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2871 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2872 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2873 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2874 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2875 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2876 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2877 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2878 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2879 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2880 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2881 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2882 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2883 other minor changes.
2884 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2885 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2886 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2887 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2888 course there's -X ..)
2889 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2890 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2891 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2893 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2894 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2895 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2896 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2897 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2902 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2908 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2911 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2915 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2921 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2927 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2933 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2939 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2942 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2943 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2944 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2945 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2947 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2948 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2952 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2958 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2961 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2965 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2968 upset. Closes: #131322
2970 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2972 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2975 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2976 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2977 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2978 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2979 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2980 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2981 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2982 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2983 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2984 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2985 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2986 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2987 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2988 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2989 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2991 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2995 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2998 - Better indenting of generated code.
2999 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3003 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3007 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3008 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3009 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3010 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3011 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3012 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3013 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3017 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3020 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3024 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3027 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3028 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3029 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3030 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3031 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3032 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3033 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3034 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3035 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3036 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3037 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3038 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3039 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3040 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3041 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3046 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3052 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3055 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3056 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3060 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3063 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3064 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3068 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3074 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3077 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3078 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3079 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3080 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3081 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3086 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3092 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3095 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3099 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3102 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3107 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3113 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3116 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3120 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3126 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3130 Also some indentation fixes.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3134 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3137 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3138 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3139 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3140 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3141 Closes: #106514, #85520
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3145 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3151 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3157 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3163 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3169 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3175 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3178 change it in debhelper v4..
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3182 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3188 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3191 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3195 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3198 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3202 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3208 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3211 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3212 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3213 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3214 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3215 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3216 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3217 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3218 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3219 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3220 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3221 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3222 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3226 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3229 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3233 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3240 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3243 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3244 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3245 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3246 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3247 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3248 program those options go to. So, for example,
3249 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3250 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3251 something complex. Closes: #89311
3252 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3256 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3259 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3260 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3261 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3265 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3268 through loop. Closes: #98598
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3272 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * Missing semi-colon.
3275 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3276 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3280 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3283 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3284 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3285 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3289 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3292 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3293 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3297 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3300 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3304 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3307 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3308 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3312 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3315 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3316 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3317 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3321 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3324 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3325 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3326 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3330 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3333 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3337 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3343 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3349 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3355 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3361 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3364 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3368 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3371 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3372 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3373 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3374 followed. Closes: #85483
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3378 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3380 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3381 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3382 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3386 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3389 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3390 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3391 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3392 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3393 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3394 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3395 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3396 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3397 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3398 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3399 Closes: #88464, #77743
3400 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3401 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3402 us to deal with that gracefully.
3403 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3405 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3406 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3407 a while, Closes: #51225
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3411 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3417 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3420 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3424 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3428 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3433 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3436 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3437 don't make packlist files.
3438 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3439 debhelper coding standards.
3440 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3441 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3445 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3448 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3452 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3455 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3456 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3457 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3458 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3459 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3460 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3461 but is mildly deprecated.
3462 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3463 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3464 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3465 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3466 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3467 switching to statoverrides..
3468 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3469 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3470 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3471 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3472 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3473 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3475 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3476 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3477 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3478 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3479 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3480 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3481 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3482 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3483 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3485 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3486 variable names, pod man pages).
3487 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3488 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3489 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3490 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3491 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3492 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3493 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3497 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3503 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3510 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3513 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3517 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3519 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3520 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3521 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3525 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3527 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3528 they were previously ignored.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3532 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3534 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3535 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3539 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3541 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3542 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3543 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3547 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3549 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3553 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3555 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3556 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3560 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3562 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3563 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3564 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3565 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3566 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3567 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3568 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3569 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3570 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3571 it is an obsolete program.
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3575 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3577 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3581 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3585 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3587 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3591 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3593 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3595 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3597 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3601 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3607 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * typo: Closes, #78567
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3613 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3619 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3625 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3628 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3629 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3630 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3631 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3632 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3636 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3639 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3644 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3647 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3648 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3649 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3650 backwards-compatability.
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3654 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3657 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3658 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3659 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3660 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3661 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3662 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3664 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3665 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3666 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3668 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3670 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3671 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3672 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3673 should now be raised to severity important..
3674 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3675 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3679 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3682 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3687 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3693 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3699 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3705 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3712 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3715 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3716 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3717 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3718 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3722 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3728 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3731 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3732 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3733 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3734 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3735 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3736 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3741 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3744 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3748 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3754 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3757 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3762 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3765 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3766 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3767 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3768 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3772 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3776 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3779 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3782 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3783 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3786 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3788 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3789 the TODO entry about it.
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3793 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3800 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3803 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3804 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3808 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3811 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3812 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3813 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3814 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3818 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3824 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3831 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3834 (this appears to be logal).
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3838 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3841 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3842 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3843 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3844 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3848 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3854 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3857 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3858 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3859 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3860 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3864 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3870 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3873 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3877 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3884 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3887 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3888 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3889 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3894 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3901 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3907 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3910 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3911 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3912 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3913 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3914 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3915 notice until v2 is complete.
3916 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3917 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3918 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3919 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3920 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3921 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3923 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3924 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3925 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3926 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3936 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3943 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3946 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3950 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3957 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3960 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3961 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3962 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3963 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3968 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3971 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3972 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3973 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3978 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3981 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3982 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3986 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3989 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3993 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3996 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4000 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4010 depend on the build and install targets.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4014 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4017 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4021 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4034 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4040 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4043 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4044 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4045 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4046 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4047 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4048 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4050 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4051 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4052 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4053 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4054 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4055 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4056 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4060 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4066 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4072 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4075 right place. Closes: #55065
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4079 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4086 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4089 * Copyright date updates.
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4093 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4096 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4101 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4107 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4120 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4126 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4132 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4135 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4136 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4137 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4138 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4139 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4140 bits until all files have been registered.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4144 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_installmanpages:
4147 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4148 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4149 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4150 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4151 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4152 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4153 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4154 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4155 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4156 otherwise change the result at all.
4158 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4159 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4160 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4161 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4162 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4167 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4173 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4176 act on files that don't exist.
4177 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4178 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4179 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4181 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4182 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4183 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4184 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4188 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4194 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4200 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4203 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4207 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4210 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4212 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4213 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4214 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4218 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4221 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4222 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4223 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4224 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4225 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4226 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4227 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4229 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4231 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4235 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4242 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4254 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4257 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4273 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4276 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4277 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4278 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4279 I made some changes, though:
4280 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4281 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4282 that is a clear violation of policy.
4283 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4284 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4285 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4286 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4287 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4288 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4289 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4290 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4291 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4293 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4297 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4306 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4313 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4314 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4319 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4332 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4335 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4336 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4337 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4338 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4339 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4340 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4341 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4345 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4351 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4355 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4356 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4360 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4366 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4369 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4373 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4376 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4377 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4381 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4383 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4388 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4392 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4396 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4399 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4400 for the dependancies to be generated.
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4404 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4407 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4411 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4414 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4415 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4416 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4421 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4424 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4425 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4429 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4435 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4441 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4444 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4448 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4454 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4457 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4458 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4459 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4460 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4461 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4462 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4463 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4464 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4465 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4466 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4467 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4468 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4472 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4475 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4476 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4478 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4479 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4480 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4481 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4482 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4483 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4485 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4486 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4490 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4493 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4497 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4504 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4507 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4512 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4515 for building debhelper.
4516 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4520 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4527 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4530 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4537 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4538 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4539 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4540 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4541 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4542 it's always available.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4546 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4549 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4550 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4551 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4555 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4558 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4559 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4563 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4569 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4572 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4576 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4585 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4586 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4587 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4591 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4594 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4599 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4602 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4603 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4605 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4606 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4616 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4622 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4625 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4629 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4632 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4633 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4635 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4639 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4642 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4643 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4644 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4648 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4651 things if CDPATH is set.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4655 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4661 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4664 seems to make sense for the transition.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4671 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4676 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4679 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4680 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4684 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4687 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4691 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4694 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4695 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4696 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4697 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4701 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4707 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4710 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4711 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4712 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4713 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4714 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4715 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4716 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4717 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4718 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4719 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4724 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4727 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4728 * README: mention doc/v2
4729 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4730 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4734 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4736 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4737 be using this script RSN.
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4741 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4744 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4745 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4746 more than 1 init script.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4750 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4753 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4757 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * Changed perl version detection.
4760 * Changed call to find.
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4764 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4767 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4769 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4774 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * Really include dh_installpam.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4780 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4783 * Wrote man page for same.
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4787 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4790 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4791 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4796 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4803 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4806 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4807 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4808 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4809 x bit was being set!
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4813 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4816 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4817 well. (Closes: 38900)
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4821 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4824 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4825 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4829 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4835 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4842 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4848 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4851 help from Julian Gilbey.
4852 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4853 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4854 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4855 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4856 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4857 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4858 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4863 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4869 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4876 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4882 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4888 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4891 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4895 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4898 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4902 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4905 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4909 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4915 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4918 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4922 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4928 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4934 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4937 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4938 may be deleted. (#35845)
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4942 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * Various man page enhancements.
4945 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4950 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4953 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4954 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4958 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4961 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4962 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4963 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4965 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4966 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4971 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4977 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * Another very minor typo fix.
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4983 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * Very minor typo fix.
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4989 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4992 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4993 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4997 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5003 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5006 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5007 variables properly (#34850).
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5011 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5017 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5020 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5021 (automatically generated by build process).
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5025 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5027 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5031 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5034 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5035 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5037 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5041 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5044 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5048 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * README: minor typo fix.
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5054 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5057 leave it at that. :-)
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5061 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5067 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5069 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5073 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5076 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5077 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5078 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5082 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5085 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5089 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5092 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5096 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5099 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5100 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5101 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5102 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5106 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5109 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5110 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5111 Craig Small for spotting this.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5115 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5118 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5119 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5123 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5129 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5132 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5136 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5138 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5139 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5140 working on the last version of debhelper.
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5144 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5147 being made. (#23255)
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5151 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5157 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5160 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5164 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5167 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5168 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5169 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5170 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5174 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5177 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5178 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5179 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5180 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5182 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5183 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5185 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5190 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5196 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5202 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5205 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5206 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5207 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5208 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5209 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5210 suidregister actually supports it.
5211 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5212 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5216 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5223 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5226 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5227 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5228 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5229 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5230 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5231 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5232 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5236 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5238 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5239 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5243 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5246 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5247 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5248 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5249 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5253 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5256 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5258 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5259 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5260 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5261 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5262 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5263 effect, either. (#30118)
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5267 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5273 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5276 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5277 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5281 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5287 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5290 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5291 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5292 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5293 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5297 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5300 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5301 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5305 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5311 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5314 packages, painlessly.
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5318 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5324 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5330 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5336 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * The perl conversion is complete.
5340 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5342 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5343 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5344 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5349 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5352 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5353 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5354 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5358 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5361 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5363 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5365 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5366 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5370 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5373 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5374 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5378 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5384 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5387 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5388 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5389 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5390 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5391 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5395 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5398 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5399 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5400 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5401 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5405 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5408 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5412 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5415 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5416 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5417 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5418 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5419 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5420 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5421 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5422 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5426 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5432 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5435 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5436 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5437 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5442 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5445 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5449 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5452 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5456 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5459 sections of shared libraries.
5460 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5461 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5462 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5463 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5464 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5465 things you don't want them to.
5466 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5467 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5471 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5474 shared libraries. (#26414)
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5478 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5480 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5481 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5482 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5483 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5487 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5491 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5493 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5494 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5495 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5496 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5497 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5501 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5504 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5508 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5511 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5512 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5517 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5520 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5524 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5527 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5528 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5529 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5530 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5531 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5533 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5534 remove debian/files properly.
5535 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5536 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5537 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5538 * Removed bogus menu file.
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5542 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5545 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5549 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5552 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5553 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5554 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5555 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5556 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5557 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5561 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5564 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5565 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5566 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5567 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5571 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5578 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5581 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5582 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5584 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5585 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5586 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5587 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5588 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5589 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5593 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5596 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5597 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5598 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5599 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5600 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5601 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5602 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5603 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5604 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5605 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5606 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5607 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5608 passed any switches.
5609 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5613 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5616 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5617 at all for a long while.
5618 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5619 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5620 large chunks in the process.
5621 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5622 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5623 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5628 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5631 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5633 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5638 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5641 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5642 that don't always have the same files in them.
5643 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5644 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5645 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5649 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5653 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5654 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5655 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5656 updating 27 man pages.
5657 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5658 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5659 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5660 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5661 programs act on. (#25247)
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5665 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5669 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5670 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5671 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5672 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5673 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5674 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5679 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5686 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5693 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5696 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5700 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5706 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5709 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5710 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5711 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5712 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5713 package by accident.
5714 * Is version 1.0 next?
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5718 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5721 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5722 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5726 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5729 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5730 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5731 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5732 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5733 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5735 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5740 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5743 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5744 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5748 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5751 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5755 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5758 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5759 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5764 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5770 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5773 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5774 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5779 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5781 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5785 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5788 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5789 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5790 past week. Thanks, guys!
5792 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5793 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5794 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5795 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5796 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5797 would do in the same situation.
5798 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5799 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5801 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5803 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5804 permissions changed.
5805 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5806 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5807 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5808 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5809 files are treated identically.
5810 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5811 * Minor man page fixes.
5812 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5813 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5814 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5818 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5821 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5822 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5823 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5824 use -X multiple times, too.
5825 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5826 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5830 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5833 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5834 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5838 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5841 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5845 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5848 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5849 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5850 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5851 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5852 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5853 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5854 shape if you're starting a new package.
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5858 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5861 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5865 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5868 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5869 because of missing symlinks.
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5873 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5879 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5882 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5883 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5884 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5885 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5886 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5888 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5889 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5893 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5895 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5896 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5897 to be changed after the fact :-)
5898 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5902 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5904 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5905 no version string after the -V.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5909 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5911 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5912 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5917 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5920 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5924 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5927 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5928 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5929 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5930 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5931 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5932 I always welcome corrections!
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5936 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5942 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5944 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5945 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5946 * Documented this new switch.
5948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5950 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5952 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5953 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5954 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5955 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5956 no packages use the old behavior.
5958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5960 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5962 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5963 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5964 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5968 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5971 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5975 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5981 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5984 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5988 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5991 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5992 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5993 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5997 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6003 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6005 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6006 into the source package by accident.
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6010 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6013 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6014 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6015 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6016 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6017 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6018 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6023 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6027 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6028 inspired to implement some of it.
6029 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6033 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6036 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6040 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6043 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6044 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6048 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6051 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6052 have done.) (#17598)
6054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6056 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6058 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6062 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6068 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6071 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6075 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6078 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6079 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6083 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6086 argument processor in perl.
6087 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6088 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6089 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6090 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6094 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6097 type directories. (#16933)
6098 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6099 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6100 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6101 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6102 are supported. (#16935)
6103 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6108 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6110 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6111 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6115 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6119 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6120 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6121 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6122 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6123 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6124 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6128 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6131 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6132 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6134 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6135 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6136 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6137 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6138 a given package, or -i or -a.
6139 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6140 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6141 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6142 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6143 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6144 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6145 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6146 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6147 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6149 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6150 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6151 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6155 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6157 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6158 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6159 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6164 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6166 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6167 does not have a section.
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6171 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6174 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6175 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6176 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6180 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6182 * Fixed typo #16215.
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6186 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6189 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6190 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6191 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6192 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6193 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6198 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6201 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6202 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6203 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6208 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6210 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6214 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6216 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6220 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6223 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6224 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6225 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6226 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6227 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6228 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6232 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6238 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6240 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6241 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6245 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6248 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6249 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6250 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6254 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6257 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6261 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6263 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6267 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6270 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6274 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6277 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6281 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6283 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6287 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6290 postinst, postrm, etc.
6292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6294 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6296 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6300 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6303 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6304 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6305 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6306 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6307 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6311 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6313 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6314 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6315 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6319 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6321 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6322 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6326 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6328 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6329 installing package files into.
6330 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6335 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6337 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6339 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6343 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6349 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6351 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6352 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6356 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6358 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6359 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6360 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6361 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6362 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6366 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6368 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6369 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6370 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6371 multiple binary packages.
6372 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6373 should rebuild them with this version.
6374 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6378 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6380 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6381 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6385 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6387 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6388 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6392 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6395 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6396 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6397 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6398 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6399 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6400 debian/README.debian.
6401 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6402 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6403 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6404 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6405 in a few situations.)
6407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6409 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6411 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6415 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6417 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6421 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6424 * Fixed several man pages.
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6428 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6431 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6432 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6436 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6438 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6439 is ready for general use.
6440 * Added man pages for all commands.
6441 * Multiple binary package support.
6442 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6443 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6444 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6446 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6447 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6448 auto-installed as parameters.
6449 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6451 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6454 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6455 the package build directory it is to act on.
6456 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6457 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6458 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6462 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6464 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6465 ready to replace debstd.
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400