1 debhelper (7.0.17) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
7 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
8 * Typo. Closes: #493062
10 -- Per Olofsson <pelle@debian.org> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:52:14 +0200
12 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
14 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
15 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
16 empty files. Closes: #490937
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
20 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
26 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
33 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
36 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
37 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
38 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
39 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
44 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
46 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
47 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
48 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
49 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
53 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
56 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
57 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
58 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
59 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
60 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
64 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
71 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
73 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
74 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
75 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
76 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
77 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
78 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
79 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
80 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
81 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
82 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
86 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
89 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
90 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
91 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
92 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
94 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
95 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
96 breaking backwards compatability.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
100 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
103 message in perl 5.10.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
107 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
113 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Convert copyright file to new format.
116 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
120 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
123 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
127 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
130 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
131 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
132 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
133 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
134 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
135 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
136 logging by dh_listpackages.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
140 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
143 run and there are no packages of that type.
144 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
145 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
146 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
147 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
149 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
150 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
154 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
156 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
157 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
158 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
162 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
165 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
166 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
168 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
169 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
170 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
171 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
172 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
173 planned but not yet implemented.)
174 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
175 if the Makefile has such a target.
176 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
177 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
178 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
179 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
180 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
181 but not yet implemented.)
182 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
183 recommended default, especially when using dh.
184 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
185 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
186 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
188 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
190 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
191 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
193 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
194 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
195 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
200 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
203 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
204 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
208 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
210 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
211 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
212 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
216 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
218 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
222 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
228 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
231 just those installed by the program.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
235 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
238 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
239 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
243 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
246 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
247 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
248 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
249 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
253 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
256 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
257 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
261 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
264 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
265 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
269 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
272 with policy. Closes: #461392
273 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
274 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
275 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
276 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
277 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
281 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
284 Closes: #460340, #460351
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
288 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
291 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
292 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
293 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
294 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
298 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
301 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
302 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
303 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
304 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
305 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
306 package build directory won't work.
307 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
308 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
309 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
310 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
311 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
312 mode. Closes: #459426
313 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
318 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
321 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
325 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
329 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
330 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
331 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
332 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
333 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
334 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
338 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
341 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
342 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
343 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
344 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
348 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
351 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
352 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
353 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
354 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
355 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
359 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
362 debian/package.triggers files.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
366 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
369 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
373 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
376 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
377 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
378 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
379 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
384 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
387 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
391 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
394 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
395 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
397 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
402 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
406 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
407 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
408 * Typo. Closes: #441272
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
412 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
419 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
426 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
429 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
431 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
432 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
433 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
435 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
436 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
437 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
441 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
444 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
445 * Update urls to web page.
446 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
448 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
449 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
453 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
456 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
457 - typo in alternatives call
458 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
460 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
461 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
465 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
468 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
473 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
479 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
485 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
488 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
490 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
491 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
492 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
493 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
494 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
495 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
496 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
497 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
498 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
499 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
500 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
504 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
507 package install. Closes: #415717
508 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
509 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
510 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
511 script and then remove the python files.
512 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
513 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
514 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
515 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
516 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
517 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
518 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
519 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
520 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
521 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
522 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
523 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
524 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
528 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Correct typo in french translation
534 * Typo. Closes: #400571
535 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
537 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
539 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
540 Closes: #406921, #381940
541 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
543 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
544 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
545 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
546 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
547 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
548 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
549 specified). Closes: #381851
550 * Misc minor changes.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
554 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
561 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
562 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
566 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
572 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
573 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
576 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
577 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
579 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
580 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
581 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
582 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
586 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
589 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
592 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
596 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
602 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
608 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
609 a difficult situation.
610 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
611 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
612 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
613 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
614 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
615 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
616 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
617 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
618 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
619 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
623 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Non-maintainer upload.
626 * Update of dh_python
627 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
628 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
630 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
631 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
632 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
633 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
634 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
636 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
638 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Non-maintainer upload.
641 * Update of dh_python
642 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
643 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
644 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
645 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
646 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
647 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
648 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
649 specific python version. Closes: #373853
650 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
651 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
653 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
654 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
655 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
656 the not too-distant future).
657 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
658 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
659 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
660 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
661 thus made the build fail.
663 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
665 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Non-maintainer upload.
668 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
670 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
672 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
674 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
675 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
676 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
677 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
678 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
679 package. Closes: #301424
680 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
681 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
682 fonts). Closes: #372686
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
686 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
692 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
693 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
694 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
695 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
696 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
697 above, but already depends on that.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
701 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
704 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
705 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
706 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
707 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
708 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
712 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
718 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
724 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
725 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
729 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
732 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
736 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
740 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
741 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
742 new version (0.24.1).
743 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
744 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
747 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
748 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
749 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
750 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
751 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
752 new directory on their own.
753 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
754 * Fix broken directory removal code.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
758 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
761 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
762 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
763 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
764 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
768 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
771 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
772 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
773 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
774 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
775 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
779 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
785 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Typo. Closes: #358904
789 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
790 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
794 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
795 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
799 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
801 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
802 || exit 0 instead of the intended
804 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
805 ignored. Closes: #337664
807 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
812 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
818 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
823 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
824 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
825 the dh_installdebconf manpage
826 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
827 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
828 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
829 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
833 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
836 version. Closes: #350607
837 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
838 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
839 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
840 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
844 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
847 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
848 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
849 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
853 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
860 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Minor bug fix from last release.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
866 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
869 language guessing. Closes: #193221
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
873 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
876 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
877 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
878 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
879 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
880 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
881 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
885 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
888 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
889 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
894 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
897 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
901 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
904 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
908 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
911 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
912 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
913 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
914 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
915 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
916 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
920 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
923 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
924 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
925 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
926 link. Closes: #346405
927 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
930 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
931 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
932 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
933 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
934 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
935 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
939 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
946 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
948 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
952 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
955 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
959 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
962 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
967 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
971 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
972 installed. Closes: #342033
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
976 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
979 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
980 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
981 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
986 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
992 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
998 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1002 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1003 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1004 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1008 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1011 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1016 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1023 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1029 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1032 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1033 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1034 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1035 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1036 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1037 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1038 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1040 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1044 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1047 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1048 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1052 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1055 in standard man dirs.
1056 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1060 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1066 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1069 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1074 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1081 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1088 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1091 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1092 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1096 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1099 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1100 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1101 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1103 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1105 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1111 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1117 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1120 mode. Closes: #324161
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1124 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1127 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1128 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1129 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1130 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1135 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1138 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1139 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1140 is necesary for sanity.
1141 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1142 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1147 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1149 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1150 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1154 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1157 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1161 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1167 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1170 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1171 released, so use at your own risk.
1172 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1173 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1175 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1176 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1177 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1178 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1179 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1180 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1181 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1182 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1183 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1184 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1185 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1186 including twice per config file line now..
1187 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1188 and simplfy the rules file.
1189 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1190 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1191 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1193 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1194 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1198 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1201 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1205 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1208 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1212 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1215 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1219 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1222 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1223 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1224 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1225 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1226 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1227 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1231 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1234 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1235 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1236 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1241 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1244 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1245 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1250 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1253 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1254 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1255 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1260 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1263 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1264 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1265 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1269 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1275 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1282 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1285 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1286 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1287 unknown. Closes: #282924
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1291 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1298 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * Spanish man page updates.
1301 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1306 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1312 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1315 * dh_desktop: reindent
1316 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1317 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1321 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1327 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1329 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1333 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1335 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1339 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1342 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1343 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1347 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1353 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1359 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1366 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1369 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1373 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1376 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1377 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1378 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1379 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1380 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1381 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1383 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1384 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1385 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1386 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1387 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1388 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1389 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1390 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1391 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1392 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1393 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1394 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1395 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1396 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1397 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1398 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1402 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1409 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1412 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1416 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1419 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1423 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1426 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1430 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1433 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1437 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1443 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1449 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1455 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1458 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1459 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1460 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1464 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1467 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1471 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1474 but occasionally right and necessary.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1478 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1481 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1482 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1483 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1484 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1485 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1489 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1492 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1494 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1495 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1496 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1497 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1498 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1499 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1500 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1501 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1502 postinst scripts for udebs.
1503 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1507 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1510 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1512 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1513 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1517 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1523 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1530 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1537 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1540 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1544 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1547 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1551 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1554 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1557 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1558 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1562 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1568 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1571 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1575 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1578 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1579 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1580 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1582 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1584 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1585 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1586 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1590 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1593 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1598 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1601 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1602 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1603 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1608 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1614 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1620 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1623 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1624 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1625 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1626 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1627 associated -dbg packages.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1631 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1634 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1638 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1641 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1645 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1648 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1652 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1655 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1660 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1663 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1667 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1670 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1675 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1678 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1682 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1686 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1687 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1688 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1689 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1690 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1691 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1692 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1693 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1694 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1695 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1699 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1702 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1707 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1710 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1711 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1715 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1718 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1719 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1724 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1727 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1731 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1734 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1738 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1741 out section number. Closes: #204731
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1745 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1752 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1758 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1764 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1767 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1768 removal. Closes: #204286
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1772 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1775 renaming. Closes: #203548
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1779 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1782 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1783 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1787 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1793 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1799 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1805 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1808 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1809 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1810 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1814 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1817 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1818 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1822 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1828 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1835 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1838 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1846 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1850 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1853 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1855 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1856 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1860 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1863 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1868 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1871 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1881 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1883 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1887 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1890 it break hard links (see #188663).
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1894 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1897 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1901 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1907 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1911 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1912 debconf-mergetemplates
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1916 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1919 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1923 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1926 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1930 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1933 * Update debhelper(1).
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1937 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1940 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1941 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1942 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1943 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1944 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1948 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1951 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1952 the shell. Closes: #178524
1953 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1957 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1960 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1964 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1967 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1971 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1974 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1975 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1976 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1977 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1982 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1985 files from installation.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1989 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1992 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1993 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1997 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2000 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2004 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2007 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2011 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2017 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2023 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2027 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2028 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2030 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2034 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2037 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2038 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2039 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2040 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2044 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2047 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2051 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2054 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2055 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2059 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2063 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2068 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2074 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2078 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2079 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2080 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2085 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2088 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2089 practice. Closes: #163303
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2099 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2106 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2109 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2111 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2112 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2113 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2114 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2115 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2119 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2122 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2133 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2140 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2143 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2148 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2154 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2160 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2166 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2173 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2176 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2177 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2178 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2179 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2184 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2190 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2200 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2201 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2205 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2208 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2209 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2210 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2211 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2212 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2216 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2219 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2221 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2226 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2229 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2233 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2236 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2237 right thing. Closes: #150644
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2241 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Stupid, evil typo.
2244 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2248 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2255 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2258 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2259 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2264 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2273 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2277 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2280 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2281 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2286 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2289 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2293 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2302 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2303 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2307 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2313 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Removing perl warning message.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2319 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2322 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2323 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2324 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2325 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2326 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2327 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2328 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2329 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2333 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2339 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2349 debconf-mergetemplate.
2350 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2351 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2358 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2359 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2360 dh_install, which ...
2361 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2362 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2363 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2364 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2365 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2366 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2367 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2368 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2369 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2370 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2371 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2372 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2373 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2374 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2375 other minor changes.
2376 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2377 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2378 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2379 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2380 course there's -X ..)
2381 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2382 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2383 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2385 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2386 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2387 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2388 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2389 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2394 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2400 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2403 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2407 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2413 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2419 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2425 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2431 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2434 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2435 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2436 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2437 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2439 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2440 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2444 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2450 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2453 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2457 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2460 upset. Closes: #131322
2462 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2464 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2467 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2468 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2469 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2470 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2471 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2472 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2473 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2474 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2475 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2476 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2477 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2478 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2479 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2480 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2481 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2483 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2487 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2490 - Better indenting of generated code.
2491 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2495 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2499 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2500 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2501 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2502 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2503 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2504 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2505 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2509 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2512 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2516 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2519 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2520 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2521 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2522 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2523 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2524 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2525 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2526 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2527 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2528 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2529 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2530 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2531 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2532 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2533 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2538 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2544 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2547 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2548 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2552 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2555 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2556 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2560 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2566 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2569 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2570 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2571 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2572 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2573 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2578 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2584 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2587 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2591 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2594 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2599 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2605 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2608 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2612 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2618 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2622 Also some indentation fixes.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2626 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2629 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2630 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2631 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2632 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2633 Closes: #106514, #85520
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2637 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2643 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2649 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2655 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2661 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2667 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2670 change it in debhelper v4..
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2674 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2680 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2683 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2687 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2690 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2694 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2700 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2703 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2704 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2705 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2706 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2707 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2708 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2709 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2710 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2711 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2712 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2713 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2714 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2718 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2721 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2725 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2732 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2735 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2736 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2737 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2738 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2739 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2740 program those options go to. So, for example,
2741 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2742 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2743 something complex. Closes: #89311
2744 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2748 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2751 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2752 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2753 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2757 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2760 through loop. Closes: #98598
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2764 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Missing semi-colon.
2767 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2768 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2772 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2775 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2776 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2777 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2781 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2784 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2785 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2789 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2792 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2796 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2799 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2800 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2804 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2807 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2808 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2809 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2813 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2816 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2817 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2818 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2822 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2825 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2829 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2835 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2841 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2847 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2853 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2856 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2860 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2863 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2864 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2865 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2866 followed. Closes: #85483
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2870 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2872 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2873 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2874 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2878 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2881 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2882 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2883 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2884 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2885 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2886 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2887 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2888 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2889 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2890 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2891 Closes: #88464, #77743
2892 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2893 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2894 us to deal with that gracefully.
2895 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2897 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2898 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2899 a while, Closes: #51225
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2903 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2909 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2912 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2916 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2920 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2925 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2928 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2929 don't make packlist files.
2930 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2931 debhelper coding standards.
2932 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2933 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2937 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2940 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2944 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2947 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2948 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2949 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2950 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2951 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2952 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2953 but is mildly deprecated.
2954 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2955 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2956 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2957 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2958 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2959 switching to statoverrides..
2960 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2961 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2962 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2963 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2964 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2965 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2967 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2968 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2969 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2970 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2971 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2972 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2973 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2974 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2975 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2977 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2978 variable names, pod man pages).
2979 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2980 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2981 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2982 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2983 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2984 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2985 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2989 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2995 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3002 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3005 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3009 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3011 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3012 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3013 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3017 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3019 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3020 they were previously ignored.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3024 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3026 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3027 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3031 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3033 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3034 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3035 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3039 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3041 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3045 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3047 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3048 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3052 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3054 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3055 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3056 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3057 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3058 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3059 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3060 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3061 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3062 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3063 it is an obsolete program.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3067 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3069 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3073 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3077 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3079 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3083 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3085 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3087 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3089 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3093 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3099 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * typo: Closes, #78567
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3105 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3111 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3117 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3120 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3121 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3122 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3123 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3124 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3128 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3131 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3136 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3139 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3140 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3141 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3142 backwards-compatability.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3146 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3149 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3150 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3151 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3152 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3153 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3154 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3156 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3157 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3158 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3160 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3162 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3163 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3164 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3165 should now be raised to severity important..
3166 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3167 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3171 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3174 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3179 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3185 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3191 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3197 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3204 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3207 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3208 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3209 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3210 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3214 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3220 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3223 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3224 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3225 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3226 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3227 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3228 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3233 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3236 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3240 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3246 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3249 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3254 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3257 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3258 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3259 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3260 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3264 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3268 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3271 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3274 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3275 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3278 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3280 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3281 the TODO entry about it.
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3285 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3292 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3295 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3296 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3300 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3303 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3304 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3305 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3306 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3310 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3316 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3323 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3326 (this appears to be logal).
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3330 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3333 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3334 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3335 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3336 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3340 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3346 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3349 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3350 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3351 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3352 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3356 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3362 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3365 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3369 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3376 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3379 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3380 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3381 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3386 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3393 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3399 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3402 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3403 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3404 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3405 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3406 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3407 notice until v2 is complete.
3408 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3409 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3410 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3411 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3412 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3413 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3415 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3416 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3417 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3418 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3422 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3428 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3435 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3438 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3442 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3449 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3452 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3453 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3454 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3455 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3460 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3463 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3464 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3465 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3470 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3473 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3474 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3478 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3481 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3485 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3488 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3492 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3499 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3502 depend on the build and install targets.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3506 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3509 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3513 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3520 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3526 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3532 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3535 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3536 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3537 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3538 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3539 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3540 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3542 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3543 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3544 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3545 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3546 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3547 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3548 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3552 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3558 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3564 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3567 right place. Closes: #55065
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3571 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3578 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3581 * Copyright date updates.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3585 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3588 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3593 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3599 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3606 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3612 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3618 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3624 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3627 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3628 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3629 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3630 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3631 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3632 bits until all files have been registered.
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3636 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * dh_installmanpages:
3639 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3640 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3641 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3642 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3643 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3644 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3645 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3646 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3647 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3648 otherwise change the result at all.
3650 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3651 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3652 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3653 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3654 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3659 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3665 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3668 act on files that don't exist.
3669 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3670 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3671 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3673 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3674 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3675 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3676 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3680 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3686 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3692 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3695 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3699 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3702 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3704 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3705 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3706 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3710 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3713 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3714 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3715 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3716 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3717 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3718 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3719 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3721 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3723 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3727 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3734 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3740 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3746 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3749 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3753 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3759 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3765 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3768 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3769 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3770 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3771 I made some changes, though:
3772 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3773 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3774 that is a clear violation of policy.
3775 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3776 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3777 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3778 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3779 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3780 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3781 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3782 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3783 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3785 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3789 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3795 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3798 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3802 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3805 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3806 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3811 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3817 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3824 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3827 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3828 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3829 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3830 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3831 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3832 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3833 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3837 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3843 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3847 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3848 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3852 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3858 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3861 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3865 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3868 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3869 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3873 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3875 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3880 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3884 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3888 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3891 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3892 for the dependancies to be generated.
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3896 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3899 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3903 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3906 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3907 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3908 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3913 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3916 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3917 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3921 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3927 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3933 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3936 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3940 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3946 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3949 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3950 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3951 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3952 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3953 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3954 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3955 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3956 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3957 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3958 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3959 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3960 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3964 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3967 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3968 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3970 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3971 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3972 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3973 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3974 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3975 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3977 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3978 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3985 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3989 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3996 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3999 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4004 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4007 for building debhelper.
4008 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4019 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4022 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4026 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4029 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4030 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4031 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4032 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4033 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4034 it's always available.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4041 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4042 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4043 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4047 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4050 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4051 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4055 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4061 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4064 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4068 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4077 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4078 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4079 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4083 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4086 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4094 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4095 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4097 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4098 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4102 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4108 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4114 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4117 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4124 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4125 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4127 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4131 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4134 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4135 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4136 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4140 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4143 things if CDPATH is set.
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4147 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4156 seems to make sense for the transition.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4163 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4168 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4171 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4172 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4179 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4183 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4186 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4187 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4188 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4189 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4199 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4202 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4203 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4204 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4205 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4206 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4207 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4208 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4209 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4210 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4211 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4216 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4219 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4220 * README: mention doc/v2
4221 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4222 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4226 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4228 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4229 be using this script RSN.
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4233 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4236 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4237 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4238 more than 1 init script.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4242 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4245 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4249 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * Changed perl version detection.
4252 * Changed call to find.
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4256 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4259 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4261 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4266 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * Really include dh_installpam.
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4272 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4275 * Wrote man page for same.
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4279 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4282 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4283 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4288 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4295 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4298 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4299 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4300 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4301 x bit was being set!
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4305 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4308 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4309 well. (Closes: 38900)
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4313 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4316 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4317 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4321 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4327 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4334 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4340 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4343 help from Julian Gilbey.
4344 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4345 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4346 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4347 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4348 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4349 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4350 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4355 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4361 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4368 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4374 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4380 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4383 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4387 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4390 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4394 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4397 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4401 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4407 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4410 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4414 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4420 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4426 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4429 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4430 may be deleted. (#35845)
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4434 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * Various man page enhancements.
4437 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4442 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4445 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4446 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4450 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4453 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4454 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4455 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4457 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4458 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4463 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4469 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Another very minor typo fix.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4475 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Very minor typo fix.
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4481 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4484 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4485 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4489 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4495 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4498 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4499 variables properly (#34850).
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4503 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4509 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4512 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4513 (automatically generated by build process).
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4517 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4519 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4523 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4526 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4527 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4529 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4533 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4536 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4540 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * README: minor typo fix.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4546 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4549 leave it at that. :-)
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4553 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4559 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4565 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4568 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4569 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4570 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4574 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4577 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4581 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4584 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4588 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4591 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4592 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4593 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4594 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4598 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4601 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4602 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4603 Craig Small for spotting this.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4607 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4610 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4611 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4615 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4621 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4624 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4628 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4630 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4631 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4632 working on the last version of debhelper.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4636 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4639 being made. (#23255)
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4643 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4649 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4652 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4656 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4659 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4660 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4661 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4662 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4666 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4669 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4670 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4671 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4672 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4674 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4675 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4677 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4682 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4688 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4694 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4697 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4698 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4699 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4700 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4701 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4702 suidregister actually supports it.
4703 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4704 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4708 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4715 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4718 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4719 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4720 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4721 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4722 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4723 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4724 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4728 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4730 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4731 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4735 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4738 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4739 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4740 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4741 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4745 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4748 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4750 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4751 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4752 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4753 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4754 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4755 effect, either. (#30118)
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4759 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4765 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4768 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4769 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4773 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4779 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4782 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4783 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4784 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4785 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4789 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4792 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4793 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4797 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4803 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4806 packages, painlessly.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4810 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4816 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4822 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4828 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * The perl conversion is complete.
4832 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4834 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4835 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4836 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4841 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4844 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4845 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4846 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4850 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4853 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4855 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4857 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4858 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4862 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4865 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4866 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4870 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4876 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4879 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4880 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4881 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4882 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4883 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4887 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4890 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4891 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4892 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4893 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4897 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4900 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4904 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4907 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4908 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4909 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4910 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4911 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4912 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4913 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4914 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4918 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4924 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4927 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4928 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4929 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4934 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4937 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4941 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4944 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4948 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4951 sections of shared libraries.
4952 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4953 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4954 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4955 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4956 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4957 things you don't want them to.
4958 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4959 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4963 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4966 shared libraries. (#26414)
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4970 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4972 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4973 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4974 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4975 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4979 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4983 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4985 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4986 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4987 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4988 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4989 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4993 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4996 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5000 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5003 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5004 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5009 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5012 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5016 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5019 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5020 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5021 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5022 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5023 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5025 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5026 remove debian/files properly.
5027 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5028 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5029 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5030 * Removed bogus menu file.
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5034 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5037 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5041 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5044 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5045 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5046 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5047 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5048 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5049 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5053 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5056 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5057 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5058 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5059 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5063 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5070 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5073 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5074 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5076 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5077 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5078 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5079 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5080 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5081 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5085 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5088 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5089 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5090 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5091 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5092 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5093 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5094 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5095 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5096 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5097 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5098 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5099 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5100 passed any switches.
5101 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5105 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5108 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5109 at all for a long while.
5110 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5111 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5112 large chunks in the process.
5113 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5114 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5115 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5120 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5123 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5125 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5130 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5133 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5134 that don't always have the same files in them.
5135 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5136 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5137 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5141 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5145 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5146 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5147 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5148 updating 27 man pages.
5149 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5150 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5151 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5152 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5153 programs act on. (#25247)
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5157 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5161 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5162 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5163 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5164 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5165 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5166 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5171 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5178 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5185 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5188 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5192 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5198 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5201 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5202 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5203 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5204 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5205 package by accident.
5206 * Is version 1.0 next?
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5210 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5213 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5214 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5218 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5221 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5222 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5223 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5224 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5225 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5227 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5232 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5235 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5236 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5240 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5243 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5247 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5250 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5251 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5256 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5262 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5265 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5266 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5271 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5277 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5280 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5281 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5282 past week. Thanks, guys!
5284 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5285 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5286 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5287 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5288 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5289 would do in the same situation.
5290 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5291 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5293 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5295 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5296 permissions changed.
5297 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5298 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5299 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5300 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5301 files are treated identically.
5302 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5303 * Minor man page fixes.
5304 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5305 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5306 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5310 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5313 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5314 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5315 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5316 use -X multiple times, too.
5317 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5318 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5322 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5325 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5326 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5330 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5333 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5337 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5340 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5341 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5342 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5343 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5344 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5345 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5346 shape if you're starting a new package.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5350 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5353 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5357 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5360 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5361 because of missing symlinks.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5365 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5371 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5374 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5375 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5376 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5377 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5378 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5380 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5381 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5385 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5387 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5388 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5389 to be changed after the fact :-)
5390 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5394 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5396 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5397 no version string after the -V.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5401 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5403 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5404 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5409 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5412 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5416 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5419 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5420 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5421 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5422 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5423 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5424 I always welcome corrections!
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5428 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5434 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5437 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5438 * Documented this new switch.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5442 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5445 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5446 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5447 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5448 no packages use the old behavior.
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5452 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5455 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5456 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5460 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5462 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5463 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5467 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5473 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5476 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5480 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5483 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5484 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5485 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5489 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5495 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5498 into the source package by accident.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5502 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5505 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5506 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5507 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5508 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5509 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5510 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5515 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5519 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5520 inspired to implement some of it.
5521 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5525 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5528 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5532 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5535 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5536 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5540 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5543 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5544 have done.) (#17598)
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5548 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5554 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5560 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5563 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5567 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5569 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5570 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5571 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5575 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5578 argument processor in perl.
5579 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5580 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5581 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5582 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5586 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5589 type directories. (#16933)
5590 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5591 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5592 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5593 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5594 are supported. (#16935)
5595 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5600 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5603 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5607 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5611 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5612 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5613 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5614 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5615 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5616 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5620 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5623 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5624 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5626 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5627 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5628 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5629 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5630 a given package, or -i or -a.
5631 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5632 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5633 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5634 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5635 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5636 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5637 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5638 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5639 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5641 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5642 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5643 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5647 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5650 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5651 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5656 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5659 does not have a section.
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5663 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5666 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5667 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5668 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5672 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * Fixed typo #16215.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5678 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5681 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5682 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5683 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5684 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5685 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5690 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5693 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5694 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5695 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5700 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5706 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5712 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5715 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5716 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5717 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5718 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5719 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5720 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5724 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5730 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5733 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5737 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5740 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5741 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5742 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5746 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5749 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5753 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5755 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5759 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5761 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5762 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5766 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5769 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5773 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5779 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5781 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5782 postinst, postrm, etc.
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5786 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5792 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5795 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5796 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5797 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5798 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5799 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5803 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5806 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5807 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5811 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5814 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5818 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5821 installing package files into.
5822 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5827 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5831 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5835 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5841 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5844 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5848 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5851 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5852 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5853 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5854 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5858 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5860 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5861 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5862 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5863 multiple binary packages.
5864 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5865 should rebuild them with this version.
5866 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5870 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5873 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5877 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5880 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5884 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5887 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5888 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5889 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5890 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5891 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5892 debian/README.debian.
5893 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5894 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5895 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5896 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5897 in a few situations.)
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5901 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5907 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5909 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5913 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5916 * Fixed several man pages.
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5920 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5923 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5924 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5928 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5930 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5931 is ready for general use.
5932 * Added man pages for all commands.
5933 * Multiple binary package support.
5934 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5935 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5936 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5938 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5939 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5940 auto-installed as parameters.
5941 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5943 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5946 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5947 the package build directory it is to act on.
5948 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5949 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5950 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5954 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5956 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5957 ready to replace debstd.
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400