1 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
4 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
5 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
6 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
7 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
8 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
10 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
11 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
12 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
13 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
14 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
15 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
19 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
22 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
23 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
24 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
25 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
26 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
28 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
32 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
34 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
38 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
40 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
41 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
42 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
43 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
44 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
45 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
46 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
47 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
48 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
49 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
50 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
54 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
56 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
57 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
59 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
60 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
61 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
62 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
64 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
65 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
69 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
71 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
72 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
73 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
74 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
75 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
76 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
77 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
79 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
80 that uses them. Affected options are:
81 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
82 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
83 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
84 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
85 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
86 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
87 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
88 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
89 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
90 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
91 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
92 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
96 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
103 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
109 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
111 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
112 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
114 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
115 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
116 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
117 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
118 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
120 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
122 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
123 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
124 rules (see bug #509756).
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
128 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
134 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
135 * Typo. Closes: #493062
136 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
137 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
141 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
144 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
145 empty files. Closes: #490937
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
149 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
155 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
162 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
165 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
166 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
167 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
168 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
173 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
175 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
176 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
177 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
178 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
182 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
185 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
186 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
187 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
188 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
189 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
193 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
200 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
202 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
203 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
204 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
205 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
206 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
207 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
208 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
209 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
210 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
211 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
215 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
218 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
219 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
220 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
221 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
223 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
224 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
225 breaking backwards compatability.
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
229 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
232 message in perl 5.10.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
236 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
242 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Convert copyright file to new format.
245 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
249 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
252 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
256 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
259 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
260 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
261 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
262 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
263 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
264 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
265 logging by dh_listpackages.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
269 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
272 run and there are no packages of that type.
273 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
274 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
275 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
276 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
278 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
279 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
283 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
285 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
286 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
287 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
291 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
294 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
295 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
297 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
298 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
299 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
300 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
301 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
302 planned but not yet implemented.)
303 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
304 if the Makefile has such a target.
305 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
306 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
307 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
308 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
309 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
310 but not yet implemented.)
311 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
312 recommended default, especially when using dh.
313 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
314 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
315 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
317 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
319 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
320 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
322 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
323 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
324 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
329 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
332 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
333 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
337 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
339 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
340 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
341 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
345 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
347 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
351 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
357 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
360 just those installed by the program.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
364 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
367 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
368 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
372 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
375 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
376 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
377 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
378 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
382 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
385 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
386 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
390 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
393 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
394 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
398 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
401 with policy. Closes: #461392
402 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
403 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
404 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
405 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
406 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
410 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
413 Closes: #460340, #460351
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
417 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
420 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
421 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
422 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
423 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
427 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
430 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
431 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
432 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
433 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
434 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
435 package build directory won't work.
436 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
437 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
438 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
439 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
440 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
441 mode. Closes: #459426
442 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
447 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
450 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
454 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
458 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
459 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
460 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
461 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
462 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
463 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
467 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
470 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
471 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
472 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
473 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
477 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
480 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
481 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
482 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
483 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
484 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
488 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
491 debian/package.triggers files.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
495 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
498 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
502 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
505 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
506 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
507 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
508 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
513 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
516 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
520 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
523 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
524 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
526 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
531 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
533 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
535 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
536 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
537 * Typo. Closes: #441272
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
541 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
548 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
555 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
558 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
560 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
561 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
562 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
564 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
565 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
566 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
570 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
573 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
574 * Update urls to web page.
575 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
577 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
578 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
582 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
585 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
586 - typo in alternatives call
587 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
589 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
590 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
594 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
596 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
597 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
602 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
608 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
614 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
617 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
619 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
620 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
621 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
622 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
623 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
624 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
625 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
626 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
627 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
628 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
629 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
633 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
636 package install. Closes: #415717
637 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
638 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
639 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
640 script and then remove the python files.
641 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
642 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
643 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
644 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
645 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
646 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
647 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
648 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
649 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
650 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
651 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
652 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
653 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
657 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Correct typo in french translation
663 * Typo. Closes: #400571
664 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
666 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
668 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
669 Closes: #406921, #381940
670 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
672 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
673 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
674 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
675 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
676 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
677 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
678 specified). Closes: #381851
679 * Misc minor changes.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
683 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
690 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
691 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
695 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
701 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
702 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
705 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
706 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
708 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
709 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
710 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
711 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
715 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
718 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
721 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
725 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
731 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
737 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
738 a difficult situation.
739 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
740 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
741 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
742 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
743 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
744 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
745 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
746 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
747 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
748 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
752 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Non-maintainer upload.
755 * Update of dh_python
756 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
757 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
759 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
760 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
761 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
762 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
763 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
765 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
767 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Non-maintainer upload.
770 * Update of dh_python
771 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
772 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
773 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
774 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
775 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
776 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
777 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
778 specific python version. Closes: #373853
779 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
780 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
782 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
783 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
784 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
785 the not too-distant future).
786 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
787 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
788 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
789 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
790 thus made the build fail.
792 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
794 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Non-maintainer upload.
797 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
799 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
801 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
804 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
805 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
806 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
807 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
808 package. Closes: #301424
809 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
810 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
811 fonts). Closes: #372686
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
815 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
821 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
822 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
823 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
824 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
825 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
826 above, but already depends on that.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
830 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
833 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
834 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
835 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
836 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
837 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
841 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
847 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
853 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
854 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
858 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
861 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
865 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
869 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
870 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
871 new version (0.24.1).
872 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
873 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
876 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
877 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
878 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
879 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
880 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
881 new directory on their own.
882 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
883 * Fix broken directory removal code.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
887 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
890 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
891 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
892 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
893 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
897 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
900 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
901 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
902 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
903 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
904 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
908 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
914 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Typo. Closes: #358904
918 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
919 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
923 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
924 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
928 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
930 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
931 || exit 0 instead of the intended
933 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
934 ignored. Closes: #337664
936 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
941 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
947 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
952 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
953 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
954 the dh_installdebconf manpage
955 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
956 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
957 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
958 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
962 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
965 version. Closes: #350607
966 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
967 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
968 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
969 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
973 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
976 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
977 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
978 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
982 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
989 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Minor bug fix from last release.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
995 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
998 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1002 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1005 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1006 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1007 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1008 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1009 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1010 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1014 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1017 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1018 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1023 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1026 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1030 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1033 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1037 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1040 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1041 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1042 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1043 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1044 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1045 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1049 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1053 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1054 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1055 link. Closes: #346405
1056 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1058 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1059 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1060 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1061 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1062 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1063 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1064 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1068 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1075 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1081 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1084 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1088 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1091 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1096 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1100 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1101 installed. Closes: #342033
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1105 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1108 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1109 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1110 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1115 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1121 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1127 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1131 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1132 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1133 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1137 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1140 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1145 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1152 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1158 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1161 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1162 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1163 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1164 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1165 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1166 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1167 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1169 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1173 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1176 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1177 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1181 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1184 in standard man dirs.
1185 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1189 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1195 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1198 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1203 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1210 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1217 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1220 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1221 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1225 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1228 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1229 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1230 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1232 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1234 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1240 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1246 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1249 mode. Closes: #324161
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1253 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1256 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1257 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1258 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1259 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1264 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1267 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1268 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1269 is necesary for sanity.
1270 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1271 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1276 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1278 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1279 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1283 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1286 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1290 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1296 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1299 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1300 released, so use at your own risk.
1301 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1302 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1304 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1305 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1306 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1307 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1308 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1309 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1310 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1311 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1312 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1313 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1314 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1315 including twice per config file line now..
1316 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1317 and simplfy the rules file.
1318 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1319 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1320 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1322 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1323 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1327 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1330 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1334 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1337 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1341 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1344 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1348 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1351 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1352 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1353 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1354 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1355 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1356 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1360 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1363 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1364 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1365 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1370 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1373 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1374 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1379 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1382 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1383 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1384 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1389 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1392 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1393 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1394 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1398 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1404 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1411 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1414 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1415 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1416 unknown. Closes: #282924
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1420 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1427 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Spanish man page updates.
1430 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1435 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1441 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1444 * dh_desktop: reindent
1445 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1446 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1450 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1456 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1458 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1462 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1464 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1468 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1471 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1472 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1476 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1482 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1488 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1495 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1498 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1502 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1505 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1506 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1507 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1508 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1509 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1510 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1512 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1513 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1514 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1515 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1516 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1517 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1518 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1519 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1520 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1521 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1522 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1523 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1524 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1525 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1526 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1527 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1531 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1538 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1541 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1545 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1548 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1552 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1555 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1559 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1562 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1566 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1572 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1578 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1584 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1587 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1588 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1589 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1593 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1596 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1600 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1603 but occasionally right and necessary.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1607 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1610 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1611 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1612 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1613 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1614 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1618 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1621 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1623 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1624 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1625 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1626 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1627 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1628 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1629 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1630 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1631 postinst scripts for udebs.
1632 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1636 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1639 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1641 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1642 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1646 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1652 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1659 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1666 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1669 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1673 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1676 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1680 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1683 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1686 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1687 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1691 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1697 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1700 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1704 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1707 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1708 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1709 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1711 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1713 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1714 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1715 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1719 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1722 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1727 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1730 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1731 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1732 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1737 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1743 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1749 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1752 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1753 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1754 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1755 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1756 associated -dbg packages.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1760 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1763 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1767 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1770 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1774 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1777 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1781 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1784 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1789 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1792 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1796 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1799 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1804 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1807 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1811 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1815 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1816 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1817 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1818 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1819 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1820 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1821 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1822 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1823 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1824 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1828 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1831 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1836 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1839 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1840 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1844 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1847 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1848 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1856 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1860 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1863 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1867 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1870 out section number. Closes: #204731
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1874 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1881 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1887 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1893 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1896 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1897 removal. Closes: #204286
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1901 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1904 renaming. Closes: #203548
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1908 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1911 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1912 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1928 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1934 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1937 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1938 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1939 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1943 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1946 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1947 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1951 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1957 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1964 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1967 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1972 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1975 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1979 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1982 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1984 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1985 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1992 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1997 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2000 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2010 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2012 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2016 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2019 it break hard links (see #188663).
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2023 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2026 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2036 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2040 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2041 debconf-mergetemplates
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2045 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2048 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2052 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2055 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2059 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2062 * Update debhelper(1).
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2066 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2069 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2070 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2071 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2072 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2073 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2077 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2080 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2081 the shell. Closes: #178524
2082 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2086 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2089 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2093 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2096 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2100 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2103 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2104 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2105 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2106 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2111 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2114 files from installation.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2118 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2121 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2122 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2126 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2129 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2133 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2136 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2140 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2146 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2152 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2156 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2157 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2159 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2163 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2166 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2167 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2168 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2169 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2173 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2176 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2180 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2183 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2184 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2188 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2192 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2203 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2207 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2208 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2209 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2217 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2218 practice. Closes: #163303
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2222 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2228 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2235 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2238 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2240 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2241 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2242 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2243 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2244 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2248 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2251 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2256 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2262 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2269 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2272 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2277 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2283 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2289 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2302 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2305 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2306 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2307 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2308 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2313 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2319 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2326 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2329 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2330 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2337 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2338 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2339 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2340 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2341 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2345 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2348 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2350 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2358 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2365 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2366 right thing. Closes: #150644
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2370 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Stupid, evil typo.
2373 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2377 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2387 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2388 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2393 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2402 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2409 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2410 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2418 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2428 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2431 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2432 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2436 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Removing perl warning message.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2451 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2452 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2453 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2454 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2455 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2456 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2457 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2458 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2462 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2468 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2478 debconf-mergetemplate.
2479 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2480 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2487 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2488 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2489 dh_install, which ...
2490 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2491 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2492 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2493 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2494 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2495 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2496 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2497 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2498 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2499 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2500 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2501 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2502 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2503 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2504 other minor changes.
2505 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2506 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2507 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2508 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2509 course there's -X ..)
2510 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2511 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2512 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2514 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2515 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2516 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2517 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2518 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2523 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2529 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2532 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2536 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2542 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2548 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2554 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2560 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2563 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2564 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2565 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2566 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2568 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2569 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2573 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2579 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2582 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2586 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2589 upset. Closes: #131322
2591 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2593 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2596 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2597 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2598 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2599 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2600 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2601 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2602 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2603 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2604 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2605 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2606 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2607 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2608 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2609 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2610 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2612 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2616 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2619 - Better indenting of generated code.
2620 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2624 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2628 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2629 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2630 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2631 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2632 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2633 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2634 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2638 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2641 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2645 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2648 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2649 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2650 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2651 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2652 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2653 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2654 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2655 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2656 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2657 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2658 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2659 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2660 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2661 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2662 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2667 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2673 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2676 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2677 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2681 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2684 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2685 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2689 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2695 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2698 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2699 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2700 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2701 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2702 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2707 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2713 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2716 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2720 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2723 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2728 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2734 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2737 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2741 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2747 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2751 Also some indentation fixes.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2755 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2758 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2759 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2760 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2761 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2762 Closes: #106514, #85520
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2766 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2772 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2778 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2784 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2790 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2796 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2799 change it in debhelper v4..
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2803 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2809 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2812 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2816 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2819 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2823 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2829 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2832 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2833 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2834 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2835 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2836 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2837 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2838 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2839 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2840 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2841 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2842 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2843 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2847 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2850 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2854 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2861 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2864 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2865 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2866 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2867 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2868 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2869 program those options go to. So, for example,
2870 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2871 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2872 something complex. Closes: #89311
2873 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2877 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2880 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2881 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2882 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2886 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2889 through loop. Closes: #98598
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2893 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * Missing semi-colon.
2896 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2897 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2901 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2904 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2905 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2906 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2910 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2913 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2914 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2918 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2921 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2925 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2928 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2929 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2933 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2936 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2937 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2938 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2942 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2945 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2946 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2947 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2951 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2954 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2958 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2964 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2970 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2976 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2982 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2985 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2989 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2992 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2993 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2994 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2995 followed. Closes: #85483
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2999 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3001 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3002 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3003 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3007 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3010 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3011 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3012 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3013 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3014 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3015 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3016 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3017 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3018 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3019 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3020 Closes: #88464, #77743
3021 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3022 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3023 us to deal with that gracefully.
3024 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3026 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3027 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3028 a while, Closes: #51225
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3032 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3038 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3041 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3045 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3049 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3054 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3057 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3058 don't make packlist files.
3059 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3060 debhelper coding standards.
3061 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3062 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3066 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3069 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3073 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3076 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3077 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3078 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3079 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3080 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3081 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3082 but is mildly deprecated.
3083 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3084 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3085 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3086 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3087 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3088 switching to statoverrides..
3089 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3090 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3091 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3092 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3093 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3094 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3096 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3097 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3098 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3099 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3100 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3101 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3102 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3103 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3104 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3106 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3107 variable names, pod man pages).
3108 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3109 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3110 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3111 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3112 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3113 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3114 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3118 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3124 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3131 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3134 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3138 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3140 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3141 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3142 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3146 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3148 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3149 they were previously ignored.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3153 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3155 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3156 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3160 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3162 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3163 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3164 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3168 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3170 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3174 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3176 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3177 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3181 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3183 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3184 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3185 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3186 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3187 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3188 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3189 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3190 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3191 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3192 it is an obsolete program.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3196 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3198 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3202 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3206 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3208 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3212 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3214 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3216 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3218 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3222 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3228 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * typo: Closes, #78567
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3234 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3240 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3246 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3249 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3250 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3251 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3252 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3253 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3257 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3260 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3265 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3268 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3269 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3270 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3271 backwards-compatability.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3275 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3278 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3279 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3280 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3281 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3282 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3283 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3285 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3286 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3287 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3289 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3291 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3292 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3293 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3294 should now be raised to severity important..
3295 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3296 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3300 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3303 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3308 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3314 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3320 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3326 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3333 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3336 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3337 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3338 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3339 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3343 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3349 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3352 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3353 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3354 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3355 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3356 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3357 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3362 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3365 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3369 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3375 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3378 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3383 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3386 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3387 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3388 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3389 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3393 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3397 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3400 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3403 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3404 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3407 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3409 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3410 the TODO entry about it.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3414 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3421 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3424 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3425 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3429 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3432 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3433 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3434 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3435 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3439 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3445 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3452 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3455 (this appears to be logal).
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3459 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3462 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3463 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3464 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3465 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3469 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3475 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3478 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3479 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3480 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3481 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3485 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3491 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3494 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3498 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3505 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3508 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3509 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3510 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3515 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3522 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3528 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3531 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3532 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3533 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3534 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3535 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3536 notice until v2 is complete.
3537 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3538 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3539 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3540 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3541 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3542 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3544 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3545 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3546 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3547 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3551 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3557 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3564 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3567 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3571 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3578 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3581 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3582 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3583 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3584 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3589 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3592 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3593 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3594 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3599 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3602 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3603 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3607 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3610 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3614 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3617 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3621 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3628 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3631 depend on the build and install targets.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3635 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3638 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3642 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3649 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3655 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3661 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3664 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3665 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3666 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3667 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3668 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3669 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3671 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3672 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3673 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3674 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3675 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3676 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3677 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3681 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3687 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3693 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3696 right place. Closes: #55065
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3700 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3707 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3710 * Copyright date updates.
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3714 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3717 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3722 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3728 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3735 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3741 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3747 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3756 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3757 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3758 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3759 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3760 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3761 bits until all files have been registered.
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3765 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * dh_installmanpages:
3768 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3769 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3770 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3771 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3772 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3773 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3774 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3775 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3776 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3777 otherwise change the result at all.
3779 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3780 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3781 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3782 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3783 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3788 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3794 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3797 act on files that don't exist.
3798 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3799 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3800 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3802 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3803 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3804 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3805 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3809 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3815 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3821 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3824 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3828 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3831 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3833 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3834 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3835 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3839 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3842 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3843 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3844 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3845 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3846 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3847 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3848 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3850 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3852 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3856 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3863 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3869 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3875 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3878 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3882 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3888 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3894 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3897 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3898 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3899 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3900 I made some changes, though:
3901 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3902 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3903 that is a clear violation of policy.
3904 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3905 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3906 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3907 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3908 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3909 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3910 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3911 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3912 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3914 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3918 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3924 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3927 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3931 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3934 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3935 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3940 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3946 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3953 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3956 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3957 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3958 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3959 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3960 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3961 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3962 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3966 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3972 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3976 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3977 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3981 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3987 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3990 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3994 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3997 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3998 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4002 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4004 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4009 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4013 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4017 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4020 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4021 for the dependancies to be generated.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4025 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4028 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4032 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4035 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4036 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4037 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4042 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4045 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4046 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4050 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4056 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4065 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4069 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4075 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4078 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4079 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4080 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4081 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4082 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4083 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4084 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4085 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4086 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4087 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4088 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4089 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4093 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4096 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4097 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4099 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4100 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4101 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4102 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4103 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4104 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4106 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4107 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4111 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4114 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4118 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4125 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4128 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4133 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4136 for building debhelper.
4137 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4141 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4148 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4151 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4155 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4158 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4159 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4160 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4161 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4162 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4163 it's always available.
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4167 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4170 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4171 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4172 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4179 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4180 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4184 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4190 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4193 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4203 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4206 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4207 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4208 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4215 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4220 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4223 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4224 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4226 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4227 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4231 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4243 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4246 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4250 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4253 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4254 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4256 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4260 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4263 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4264 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4265 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4272 things if CDPATH is set.
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4276 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4282 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4285 seems to make sense for the transition.
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4289 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4292 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4297 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4300 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4301 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4305 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4308 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4312 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4315 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4316 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4317 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4318 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4322 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4328 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4331 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4332 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4333 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4334 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4335 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4336 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4337 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4338 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4339 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4340 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4345 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4348 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4349 * README: mention doc/v2
4350 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4351 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4355 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4357 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4358 be using this script RSN.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4362 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4365 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4366 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4367 more than 1 init script.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4371 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4374 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4378 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * Changed perl version detection.
4381 * Changed call to find.
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4385 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4388 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4390 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4395 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * Really include dh_installpam.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4401 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4404 * Wrote man page for same.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4408 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4411 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4412 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4417 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4424 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4427 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4428 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4429 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4430 x bit was being set!
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4434 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4437 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4438 well. (Closes: 38900)
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4442 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4445 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4446 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4450 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4456 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4463 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4469 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4472 help from Julian Gilbey.
4473 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4474 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4475 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4476 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4477 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4478 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4479 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4484 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4490 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4497 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4503 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4509 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4512 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4516 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4519 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4523 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4526 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4530 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4536 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4539 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4543 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4549 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4555 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4558 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4559 may be deleted. (#35845)
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4563 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * Various man page enhancements.
4566 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4571 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4574 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4575 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4579 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4582 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4583 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4584 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4586 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4587 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4592 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4598 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * Another very minor typo fix.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4604 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Very minor typo fix.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4610 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4613 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4614 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4618 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4624 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4627 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4628 variables properly (#34850).
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4632 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4638 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4641 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4642 (automatically generated by build process).
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4646 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4648 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4652 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4655 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4656 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4658 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4662 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4665 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4669 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * README: minor typo fix.
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4675 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4678 leave it at that. :-)
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4682 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4688 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4694 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4697 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4698 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4699 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4703 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4706 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4710 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4713 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4717 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4720 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4721 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4722 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4723 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4727 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4730 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4731 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4732 Craig Small for spotting this.
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4736 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4739 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4740 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4744 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4750 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4753 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4757 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4759 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4760 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4761 working on the last version of debhelper.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4765 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4768 being made. (#23255)
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4772 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4778 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4781 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4785 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4788 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4789 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4790 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4791 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4795 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4798 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4799 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4800 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4801 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4803 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4804 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4806 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4811 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4817 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4823 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4826 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4827 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4828 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4829 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4830 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4831 suidregister actually supports it.
4832 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4833 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4837 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4844 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4847 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4848 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4849 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4850 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4851 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4852 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4853 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4857 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4859 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4860 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4864 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4867 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4868 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4869 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4870 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4874 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4877 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4879 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4880 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4881 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4882 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4883 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4884 effect, either. (#30118)
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4888 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4894 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4897 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4898 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4902 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4908 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4911 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4912 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4913 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4914 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4918 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4921 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4922 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4926 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4932 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4935 packages, painlessly.
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4939 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4945 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4951 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4957 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * The perl conversion is complete.
4961 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4963 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4964 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4965 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4970 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4973 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4974 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4975 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4979 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4982 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4984 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4986 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4987 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4991 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4994 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4995 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4999 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5005 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5008 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5009 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5010 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5011 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5012 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5016 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5019 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5020 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5021 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5022 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5026 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5029 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5033 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5036 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5037 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5038 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5039 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5040 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5041 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5042 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5043 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5047 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5053 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5056 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5057 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5058 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5063 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5066 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5070 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5073 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5077 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5080 sections of shared libraries.
5081 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5082 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5083 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5084 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5085 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5086 things you don't want them to.
5087 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5088 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5092 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5095 shared libraries. (#26414)
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5099 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5101 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5102 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5103 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5104 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5108 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5112 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5114 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5115 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5116 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5117 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5118 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5122 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5125 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5129 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5132 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5133 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5138 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5141 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5145 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5148 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5149 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5150 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5151 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5152 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5154 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5155 remove debian/files properly.
5156 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5157 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5158 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5159 * Removed bogus menu file.
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5163 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5166 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5170 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5173 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5174 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5175 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5176 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5177 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5178 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5182 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5185 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5186 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5187 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5188 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5192 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5199 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5202 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5203 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5205 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5206 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5207 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5208 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5209 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5210 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5214 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5217 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5218 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5219 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5220 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5221 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5222 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5223 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5224 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5225 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5226 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5227 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5228 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5229 passed any switches.
5230 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5234 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5237 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5238 at all for a long while.
5239 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5240 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5241 large chunks in the process.
5242 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5243 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5244 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5249 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5252 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5254 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5259 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5262 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5263 that don't always have the same files in them.
5264 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5265 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5266 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5270 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5274 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5275 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5276 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5277 updating 27 man pages.
5278 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5279 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5280 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5281 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5282 programs act on. (#25247)
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5286 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5290 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5291 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5292 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5293 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5294 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5295 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5300 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5307 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5314 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5317 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5321 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5327 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5330 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5331 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5332 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5333 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5334 package by accident.
5335 * Is version 1.0 next?
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5339 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5342 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5343 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5347 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5350 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5351 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5352 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5353 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5354 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5356 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5361 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5364 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5365 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5369 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5372 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5376 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5379 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5380 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5385 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5391 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5394 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5395 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5400 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5406 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5409 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5410 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5411 past week. Thanks, guys!
5413 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5414 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5415 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5416 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5417 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5418 would do in the same situation.
5419 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5420 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5422 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5424 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5425 permissions changed.
5426 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5427 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5428 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5429 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5430 files are treated identically.
5431 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5432 * Minor man page fixes.
5433 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5434 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5435 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5439 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5442 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5443 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5444 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5445 use -X multiple times, too.
5446 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5447 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5451 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5454 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5455 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5459 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5462 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5466 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5469 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5470 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5471 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5472 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5473 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5474 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5475 shape if you're starting a new package.
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5479 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5482 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5486 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5489 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5490 because of missing symlinks.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5494 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5500 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5503 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5504 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5505 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5506 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5507 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5509 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5510 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5514 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5516 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5517 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5518 to be changed after the fact :-)
5519 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5523 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5525 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5526 no version string after the -V.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5530 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5532 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5533 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5538 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5541 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5545 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5548 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5549 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5550 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5551 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5552 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5553 I always welcome corrections!
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5557 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5563 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5566 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5567 * Documented this new switch.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5571 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5574 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5575 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5576 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5577 no packages use the old behavior.
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5581 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5584 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5585 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5589 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5592 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5596 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5602 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5605 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5609 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5612 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5613 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5614 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5618 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5624 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5627 into the source package by accident.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5631 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5634 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5635 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5636 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5637 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5638 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5639 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5644 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5648 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5649 inspired to implement some of it.
5650 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5654 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5657 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5661 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5664 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5665 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5669 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5672 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5673 have done.) (#17598)
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5677 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5683 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5689 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5692 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5696 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5699 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5700 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5704 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5706 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5707 argument processor in perl.
5708 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5709 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5710 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5711 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5715 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5718 type directories. (#16933)
5719 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5720 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5721 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5722 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5723 are supported. (#16935)
5724 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5729 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5732 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5736 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5740 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5741 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5742 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5743 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5744 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5745 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5749 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5752 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5753 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5755 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5756 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5757 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5758 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5759 a given package, or -i or -a.
5760 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5761 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5762 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5763 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5764 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5765 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5766 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5767 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5768 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5770 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5771 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5772 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5776 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5779 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5780 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5785 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5788 does not have a section.
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5792 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5795 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5796 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5797 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5801 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * Fixed typo #16215.
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5807 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5810 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5811 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5812 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5813 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5814 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5819 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5822 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5823 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5824 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5829 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5835 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5841 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5844 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5845 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5846 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5847 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5848 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5849 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5853 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5855 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5859 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5861 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5862 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5866 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5869 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5870 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5871 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5875 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5878 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5882 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5888 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5891 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5895 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5898 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5902 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5908 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5910 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5911 postinst, postrm, etc.
5913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5915 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5917 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5921 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5924 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5925 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5926 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5927 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5928 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5932 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5935 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5936 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5940 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5943 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5947 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5950 installing package files into.
5951 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5956 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5960 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5964 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5970 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5973 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5977 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5980 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5981 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5982 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5983 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5987 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5989 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5990 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5991 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5992 multiple binary packages.
5993 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5994 should rebuild them with this version.
5995 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5999 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6002 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6006 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6009 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6013 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6015 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6016 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6017 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6018 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6019 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6020 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6021 debian/README.debian.
6022 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6023 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6024 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6025 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6026 in a few situations.)
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6030 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6036 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6042 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6045 * Fixed several man pages.
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6049 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6052 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6053 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6057 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6059 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6060 is ready for general use.
6061 * Added man pages for all commands.
6062 * Multiple binary package support.
6063 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6064 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6065 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6067 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6068 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6069 auto-installed as parameters.
6070 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6072 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6075 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6076 the package build directory it is to act on.
6077 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6078 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6079 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6083 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6085 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6086 ready to replace debstd.
6088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400