1 debhelper (7.2.9) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:01:41 -0400
8 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
11 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
12 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
13 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
17 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
20 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
21 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
23 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
24 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
25 by triggers). Closes: #521181
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
29 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
33 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
37 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
40 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
41 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
42 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
43 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
48 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
54 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
57 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
58 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
59 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
60 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
61 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
63 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
64 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
65 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
66 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
67 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
68 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
72 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
75 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
76 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
77 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
78 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
79 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
81 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
85 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
87 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
91 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
93 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
94 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
95 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
96 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
97 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
98 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
99 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
100 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
101 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
102 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
103 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
107 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
109 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
110 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
112 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
113 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
114 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
115 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
117 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
118 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
122 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
124 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
125 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
126 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
127 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
128 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
129 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
130 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
132 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
133 that uses them. Affected options are:
134 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
135 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
136 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
137 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
138 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
139 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
140 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
141 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
142 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
143 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
144 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
145 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
149 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
156 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
162 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
164 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
165 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
167 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
168 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
169 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
170 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
171 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
173 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
175 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
176 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
177 rules (see bug #509756).
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
181 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
187 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
188 * Typo. Closes: #493062
189 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
190 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
194 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
197 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
198 empty files. Closes: #490937
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
202 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
208 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
215 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
218 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
219 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
220 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
221 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
226 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
228 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
229 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
230 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
231 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
235 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
238 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
239 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
240 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
241 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
242 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
246 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
253 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
255 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
256 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
257 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
258 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
259 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
260 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
261 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
262 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
263 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
264 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
268 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
271 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
272 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
273 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
274 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
276 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
277 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
278 breaking backwards compatability.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
282 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
285 message in perl 5.10.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
289 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
295 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Convert copyright file to new format.
298 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
302 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
305 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
309 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
312 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
313 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
314 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
315 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
316 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
317 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
318 logging by dh_listpackages.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
322 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
325 run and there are no packages of that type.
326 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
327 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
328 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
329 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
331 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
332 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
336 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
338 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
339 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
340 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
344 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
346 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
347 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
348 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
350 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
351 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
352 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
353 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
354 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
355 planned but not yet implemented.)
356 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
357 if the Makefile has such a target.
358 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
359 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
360 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
361 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
362 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
363 but not yet implemented.)
364 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
365 recommended default, especially when using dh.
366 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
367 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
368 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
370 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
372 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
373 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
375 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
376 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
377 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
382 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
385 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
386 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
390 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
392 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
393 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
394 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
398 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
404 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
410 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
413 just those installed by the program.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
417 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
420 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
421 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
425 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
428 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
429 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
430 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
431 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
435 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
438 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
439 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
443 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
446 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
447 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
451 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
454 with policy. Closes: #461392
455 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
456 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
457 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
458 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
459 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
463 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
466 Closes: #460340, #460351
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
470 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
473 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
474 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
475 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
476 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
480 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
483 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
484 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
485 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
486 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
487 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
488 package build directory won't work.
489 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
490 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
491 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
492 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
493 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
494 mode. Closes: #459426
495 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
500 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
503 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
507 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
511 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
512 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
513 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
514 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
515 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
516 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
520 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
523 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
524 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
525 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
526 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
530 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
533 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
534 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
535 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
536 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
537 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
541 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
544 debian/package.triggers files.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
548 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
551 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
555 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
558 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
559 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
560 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
561 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
566 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
569 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
573 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
576 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
577 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
579 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
584 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
588 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
589 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
590 * Typo. Closes: #441272
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
594 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
601 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
608 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
611 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
613 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
614 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
615 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
617 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
618 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
619 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
623 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
626 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
627 * Update urls to web page.
628 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
630 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
631 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
635 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
638 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
639 - typo in alternatives call
640 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
642 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
643 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
647 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
650 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
655 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
661 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
667 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
670 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
672 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
673 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
674 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
675 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
676 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
677 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
678 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
679 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
680 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
681 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
682 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
686 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
689 package install. Closes: #415717
690 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
691 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
692 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
693 script and then remove the python files.
694 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
695 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
696 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
697 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
698 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
699 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
700 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
701 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
702 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
703 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
704 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
705 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
706 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
710 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Correct typo in french translation
716 * Typo. Closes: #400571
717 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
719 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
721 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
722 Closes: #406921, #381940
723 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
725 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
726 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
727 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
728 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
729 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
730 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
731 specified). Closes: #381851
732 * Misc minor changes.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
736 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
743 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
744 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
748 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
754 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
755 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
758 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
759 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
761 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
762 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
763 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
764 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
768 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
771 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
774 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
778 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
784 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
790 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
791 a difficult situation.
792 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
793 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
794 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
795 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
796 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
797 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
798 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
799 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
800 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
801 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
805 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
807 * Non-maintainer upload.
808 * Update of dh_python
809 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
810 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
812 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
813 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
814 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
815 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
816 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
818 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
820 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Non-maintainer upload.
823 * Update of dh_python
824 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
825 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
826 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
827 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
828 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
829 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
830 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
831 specific python version. Closes: #373853
832 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
833 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
835 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
836 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
837 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
838 the not too-distant future).
839 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
840 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
841 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
842 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
843 thus made the build fail.
845 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
847 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Non-maintainer upload.
850 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
852 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
854 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
856 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
857 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
858 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
859 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
860 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
861 package. Closes: #301424
862 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
863 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
864 fonts). Closes: #372686
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
868 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
874 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
875 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
876 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
877 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
878 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
879 above, but already depends on that.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
883 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
886 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
887 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
888 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
889 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
890 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
894 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
900 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
906 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
907 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
911 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
914 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
918 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
922 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
923 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
924 new version (0.24.1).
925 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
926 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
929 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
930 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
931 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
932 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
933 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
934 new directory on their own.
935 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
936 * Fix broken directory removal code.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
940 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
943 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
944 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
945 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
946 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
950 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
953 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
954 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
955 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
956 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
957 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
961 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
967 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Typo. Closes: #358904
971 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
972 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
976 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
977 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
981 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
983 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
984 || exit 0 instead of the intended
986 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
987 ignored. Closes: #337664
989 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
994 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1000 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1005 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1006 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1007 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1008 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1009 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1010 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1011 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1015 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1018 version. Closes: #350607
1019 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1020 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1021 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1022 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1026 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1029 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1030 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1031 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1035 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1042 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1048 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1051 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1055 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1058 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1059 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1060 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1061 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1062 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1063 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1067 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1070 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1071 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1076 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1079 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1083 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1086 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1090 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1093 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1094 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1095 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1096 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1097 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1098 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1102 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1106 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1107 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1108 link. Closes: #346405
1109 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1111 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1112 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1113 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1114 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1115 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1116 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1117 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1121 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1128 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1134 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1137 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1141 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1144 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1149 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1153 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1154 installed. Closes: #342033
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1158 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1161 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1162 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1163 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1168 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1174 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1180 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1184 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1185 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1186 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1190 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1193 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1198 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1205 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1211 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1214 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1215 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1216 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1217 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1218 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1219 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1220 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1222 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1226 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1229 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1230 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1234 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1237 in standard man dirs.
1238 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1242 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1248 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1251 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1256 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1263 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1270 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1273 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1274 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1278 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1281 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1282 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1283 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1285 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1287 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1293 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1299 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1302 mode. Closes: #324161
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1306 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1309 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1310 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1311 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1312 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1317 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1320 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1321 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1322 is necesary for sanity.
1323 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1324 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1329 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1331 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1332 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1336 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1339 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1343 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1349 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1352 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1353 released, so use at your own risk.
1354 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1355 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1357 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1358 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1359 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1360 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1361 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1362 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1363 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1364 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1365 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1366 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1367 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1368 including twice per config file line now..
1369 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1370 and simplfy the rules file.
1371 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1372 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1373 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1375 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1376 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1380 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1383 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1387 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1390 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1394 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1397 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1401 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1404 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1405 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1406 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1407 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1408 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1409 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1413 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1416 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1417 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1418 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1423 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1426 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1427 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1432 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1435 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1436 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1437 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1442 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1445 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1446 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1447 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1451 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1457 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1464 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1467 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1468 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1469 unknown. Closes: #282924
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1473 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1480 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Spanish man page updates.
1483 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1488 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1494 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1497 * dh_desktop: reindent
1498 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1499 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1503 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1509 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1511 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1515 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1517 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1521 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1524 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1525 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1529 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1535 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1541 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1548 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1551 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1555 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1558 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1559 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1560 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1561 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1562 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1563 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1565 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1566 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1567 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1568 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1569 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1570 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1571 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1572 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1573 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1574 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1575 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1576 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1577 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1578 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1579 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1580 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1584 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1591 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1594 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1598 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1601 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1605 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1608 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1612 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1615 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1619 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1625 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1631 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1637 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1640 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1641 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1642 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1646 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1649 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1653 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1656 but occasionally right and necessary.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1660 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1663 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1664 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1665 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1666 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1667 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1671 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1674 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1676 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1677 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1678 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1679 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1680 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1681 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1682 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1683 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1684 postinst scripts for udebs.
1685 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1689 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1692 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1694 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1695 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1699 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1705 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1712 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1719 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1722 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1726 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1729 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1733 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1736 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1739 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1740 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1744 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1750 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1753 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1757 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1760 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1761 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1762 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1764 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1766 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1767 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1768 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1772 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1775 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1780 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1783 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1784 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1785 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1790 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1796 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1802 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1805 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1806 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1807 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1808 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1809 associated -dbg packages.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1813 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1816 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1820 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1823 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1827 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1830 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1834 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1837 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1842 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1845 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1852 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1857 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1860 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1864 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1868 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1869 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1870 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1871 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1872 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1873 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1874 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1875 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1876 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1877 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1881 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1884 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1892 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1893 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1897 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1900 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1901 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1909 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1916 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1920 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1923 out section number. Closes: #204731
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1927 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1934 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1949 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1950 removal. Closes: #204286
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1957 renaming. Closes: #203548
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1964 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1965 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1969 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1975 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1981 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1987 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1990 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1991 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1992 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1999 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2000 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2010 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2017 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2020 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2025 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2028 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2032 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2035 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2037 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2038 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2042 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2045 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2050 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2053 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2063 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2065 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2069 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2072 it break hard links (see #188663).
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2076 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2079 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2083 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2089 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2093 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2094 debconf-mergetemplates
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2098 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2101 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2105 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2108 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2112 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2115 * Update debhelper(1).
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2119 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2122 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2123 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2124 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2125 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2126 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2130 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2133 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2134 the shell. Closes: #178524
2135 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2139 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2142 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2146 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2149 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2153 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2156 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2157 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2158 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2159 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2164 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2167 files from installation.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2171 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2174 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2175 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2179 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2182 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2186 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2189 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2193 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2199 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2205 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2209 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2210 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2212 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2216 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2219 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2220 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2221 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2222 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2226 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2229 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2233 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2236 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2237 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2241 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2245 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2250 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2256 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2260 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2261 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2262 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2267 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2270 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2271 practice. Closes: #163303
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2281 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2291 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2293 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2294 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2295 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2296 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2297 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2304 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2309 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2315 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2325 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2358 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2359 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2360 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2361 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2382 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2383 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2390 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2391 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2392 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2393 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2394 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2401 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2403 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2408 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2411 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2418 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2419 right thing. Closes: #150644
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Stupid, evil typo.
2426 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2440 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2441 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2446 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2452 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2455 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2462 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2463 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2468 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2471 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2484 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2485 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2489 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Removing perl warning message.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2504 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2505 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2506 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2507 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2508 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2509 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2510 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2511 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2515 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2521 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2531 debconf-mergetemplate.
2532 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2533 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2537 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2540 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2541 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2542 dh_install, which ...
2543 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2544 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2545 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2546 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2547 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2548 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2549 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2550 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2551 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2552 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2553 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2554 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2555 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2556 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2557 other minor changes.
2558 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2559 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2560 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2561 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2562 course there's -X ..)
2563 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2564 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2565 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2567 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2568 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2569 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2570 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2571 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2576 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2582 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2585 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2589 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2595 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2601 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2607 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2613 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2616 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2617 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2618 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2619 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2621 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2622 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2626 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2632 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2635 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2639 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2642 upset. Closes: #131322
2644 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2646 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2649 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2650 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2651 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2652 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2653 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2654 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2655 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2656 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2657 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2658 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2659 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2660 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2661 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2662 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2663 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2665 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2669 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2672 - Better indenting of generated code.
2673 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2677 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2681 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2682 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2683 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2684 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2685 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2686 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2687 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2691 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2694 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2698 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2701 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2702 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2703 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2704 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2705 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2706 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2707 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2708 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2709 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2710 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2711 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2712 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2713 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2714 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2715 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2720 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2726 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2729 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2730 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2734 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2737 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2738 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2742 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2748 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2751 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2752 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2753 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2754 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2755 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2760 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2766 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2769 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2773 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2776 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2781 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2787 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2790 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2794 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2800 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2804 Also some indentation fixes.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2808 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2811 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2812 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2813 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2814 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2815 Closes: #106514, #85520
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2819 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2825 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2831 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2837 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2843 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2849 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2852 change it in debhelper v4..
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2856 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2862 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2865 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2869 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2872 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2876 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2882 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2885 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2886 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2887 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2888 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2889 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2890 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2891 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2892 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2893 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2894 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2895 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2896 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2900 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2903 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2907 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2914 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2917 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2918 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2919 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2920 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2921 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2922 program those options go to. So, for example,
2923 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2924 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2925 something complex. Closes: #89311
2926 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2930 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2933 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2934 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2935 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2939 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2942 through loop. Closes: #98598
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2946 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Missing semi-colon.
2949 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2950 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2954 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2957 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2958 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2959 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2963 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2966 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2967 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2971 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2974 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2978 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2981 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2982 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2986 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2989 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2990 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2991 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2995 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2998 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2999 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3000 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3004 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3007 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3011 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3017 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3023 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3029 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3035 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3038 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3042 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3045 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3046 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3047 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3048 followed. Closes: #85483
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3052 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3054 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3055 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3056 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3060 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3063 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3064 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3065 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3066 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3067 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3068 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3069 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3070 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3071 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3072 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3073 Closes: #88464, #77743
3074 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3075 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3076 us to deal with that gracefully.
3077 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3079 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3080 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3081 a while, Closes: #51225
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3085 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3091 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3094 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3098 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3102 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3107 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3110 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3111 don't make packlist files.
3112 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3113 debhelper coding standards.
3114 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3115 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3119 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3122 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3126 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3129 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3130 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3131 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3132 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3133 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3134 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3135 but is mildly deprecated.
3136 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3137 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3138 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3139 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3140 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3141 switching to statoverrides..
3142 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3143 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3144 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3145 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3146 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3147 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3149 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3150 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3151 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3152 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3153 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3154 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3155 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3156 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3157 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3159 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3160 variable names, pod man pages).
3161 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3162 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3163 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3164 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3165 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3166 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3167 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3171 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3177 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3184 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3187 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3191 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3193 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3194 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3195 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3199 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3201 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3202 they were previously ignored.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3206 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3208 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3209 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3213 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3215 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3216 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3217 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3221 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3223 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3227 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3229 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3230 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3234 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3236 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3237 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3238 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3239 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3240 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3241 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3242 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3243 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3244 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3245 it is an obsolete program.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3249 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3251 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3255 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3259 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3261 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3265 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3267 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3269 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3271 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3275 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3281 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * typo: Closes, #78567
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3287 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3293 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3299 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3302 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3303 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3304 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3305 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3306 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3310 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3313 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3318 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3321 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3322 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3323 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3324 backwards-compatability.
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3328 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3331 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3332 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3333 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3334 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3335 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3336 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3338 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3339 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3340 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3342 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3344 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3345 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3346 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3347 should now be raised to severity important..
3348 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3349 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3353 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3356 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3361 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3367 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3373 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3379 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3386 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3389 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3390 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3391 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3392 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3396 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3402 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3405 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3406 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3407 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3408 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3409 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3410 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3415 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3418 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3422 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3428 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3431 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3436 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3439 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3440 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3441 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3442 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3446 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3450 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3453 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3456 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3457 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3460 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3462 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3463 the TODO entry about it.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3467 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3474 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3477 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3478 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3482 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3485 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3486 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3487 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3488 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3492 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3498 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3505 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3508 (this appears to be logal).
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3512 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3515 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3516 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3517 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3518 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3522 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3528 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3531 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3532 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3533 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3534 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3538 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3544 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3547 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3551 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3558 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3561 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3562 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3563 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3568 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3575 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3581 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3584 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3585 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3586 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3587 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3588 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3589 notice until v2 is complete.
3590 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3591 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3592 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3593 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3594 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3595 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3597 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3598 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3599 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3600 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3604 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3610 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3617 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3620 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3624 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3634 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3635 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3636 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3637 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3642 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3645 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3646 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3647 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3652 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3655 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3656 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3660 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3663 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3667 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3670 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3674 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3681 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3684 depend on the build and install targets.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3688 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3691 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3695 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3702 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3708 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3714 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3717 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3718 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3719 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3720 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3721 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3722 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3724 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3725 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3726 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3727 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3728 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3729 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3730 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3734 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3740 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3746 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3749 right place. Closes: #55065
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3760 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3763 * Copyright date updates.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3767 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3770 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3775 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3781 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3788 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3794 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3800 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3806 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3809 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3810 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3811 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3812 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3813 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3814 bits until all files have been registered.
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3818 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * dh_installmanpages:
3821 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3822 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3823 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3824 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3825 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3826 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3827 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3828 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3829 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3830 otherwise change the result at all.
3832 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3833 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3834 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3835 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3836 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3841 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3847 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3850 act on files that don't exist.
3851 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3852 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3853 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3855 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3856 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3857 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3858 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3862 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3874 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3877 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3881 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3884 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3886 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3887 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3888 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3892 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3895 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3896 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3897 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3898 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3899 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3900 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3901 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3903 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3905 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3909 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3916 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3922 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3928 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3931 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3935 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3941 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3947 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3950 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3951 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3952 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3953 I made some changes, though:
3954 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3955 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3956 that is a clear violation of policy.
3957 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3958 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3959 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3960 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3961 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3962 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3963 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3964 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3965 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3967 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3971 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3977 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3980 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3987 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3988 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3993 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4006 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4009 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4010 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4011 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4012 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4013 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4014 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4015 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4019 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4025 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4029 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4030 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4034 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4040 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4043 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4047 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4050 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4051 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4055 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4057 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4066 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4073 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4074 for the dependancies to be generated.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4078 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4081 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4085 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4088 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4089 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4090 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4095 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4098 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4099 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4103 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4109 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4115 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4118 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4122 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4128 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4131 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4132 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4133 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4134 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4135 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4136 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4137 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4138 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4139 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4140 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4141 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4142 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4149 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4150 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4152 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4153 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4154 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4155 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4156 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4157 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4159 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4160 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4164 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4167 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4171 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4178 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4181 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4186 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4189 for building debhelper.
4190 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4194 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4201 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4204 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4208 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4211 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4212 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4213 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4214 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4215 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4216 it's always available.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4220 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4223 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4224 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4225 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4232 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4233 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4243 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4246 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4250 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4256 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4259 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4260 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4261 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4265 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4268 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4273 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4276 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4277 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4279 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4280 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4296 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4299 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4306 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4307 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4309 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4313 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4316 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4317 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4318 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4322 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4325 things if CDPATH is set.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4329 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4335 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4338 seems to make sense for the transition.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4342 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4345 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4350 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4353 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4354 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4358 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4361 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4365 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4368 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4369 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4370 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4371 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4375 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4377 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4381 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4384 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4385 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4386 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4387 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4388 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4389 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4390 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4391 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4392 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4393 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4398 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4401 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4402 * README: mention doc/v2
4403 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4404 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4408 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4410 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4411 be using this script RSN.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4415 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4418 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4419 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4420 more than 1 init script.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4424 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4427 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4431 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * Changed perl version detection.
4434 * Changed call to find.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4438 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4441 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4443 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4448 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Really include dh_installpam.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4454 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4457 * Wrote man page for same.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4461 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4464 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4465 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4470 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4477 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4480 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4481 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4482 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4483 x bit was being set!
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4487 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4490 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4491 well. (Closes: 38900)
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4495 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4498 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4499 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4503 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4509 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4516 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4522 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4525 help from Julian Gilbey.
4526 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4527 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4528 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4529 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4530 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4531 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4532 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4537 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4543 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4550 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4556 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4562 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4565 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4569 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4572 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4576 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4579 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4583 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4589 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4592 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4596 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4602 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4608 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4611 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4612 may be deleted. (#35845)
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4616 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * Various man page enhancements.
4619 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4624 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4627 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4628 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4632 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4635 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4636 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4637 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4639 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4640 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4645 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4651 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * Another very minor typo fix.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4657 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Very minor typo fix.
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4663 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4666 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4667 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4671 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4677 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4680 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4681 variables properly (#34850).
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4685 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4691 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4694 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4695 (automatically generated by build process).
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4699 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4701 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4705 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4708 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4709 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4711 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4715 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4718 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4722 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * README: minor typo fix.
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4728 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4731 leave it at that. :-)
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4735 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4741 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4747 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4750 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4751 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4752 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4756 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4759 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4763 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4766 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4770 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4773 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4774 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4775 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4776 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4780 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4783 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4784 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4785 Craig Small for spotting this.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4789 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4792 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4793 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4797 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4803 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4806 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4810 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4812 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4813 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4814 working on the last version of debhelper.
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4818 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4821 being made. (#23255)
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4825 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4831 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4834 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4838 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4841 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4842 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4843 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4844 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4848 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4851 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4852 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4853 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4854 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4856 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4857 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4859 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4864 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4870 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4876 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4879 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4880 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4881 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4882 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4883 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4884 suidregister actually supports it.
4885 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4886 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4890 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4897 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4900 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4901 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4902 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4903 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4904 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4905 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4906 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4910 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4912 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4913 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4917 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4920 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4921 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4922 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4923 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4927 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4930 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4932 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4933 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4934 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4935 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4936 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4937 effect, either. (#30118)
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4941 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4947 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4950 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4951 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4955 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4961 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4964 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4965 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4966 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4967 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4971 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4974 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4975 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4979 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4985 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4988 packages, painlessly.
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4992 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4998 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5004 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5010 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * The perl conversion is complete.
5014 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5016 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5017 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5018 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5023 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5026 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5027 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5028 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5032 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5035 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5037 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5039 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5040 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5044 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5047 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5048 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5052 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5058 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5061 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5062 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5063 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5064 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5065 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5069 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5072 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5073 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5074 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5075 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5079 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5082 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5086 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5089 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5090 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5091 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5092 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5093 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5094 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5095 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5096 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5100 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5106 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5109 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5110 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5111 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5116 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5119 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5123 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5126 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5130 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5133 sections of shared libraries.
5134 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5135 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5136 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5137 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5138 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5139 things you don't want them to.
5140 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5141 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5145 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5148 shared libraries. (#26414)
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5152 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5154 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5155 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5156 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5157 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5161 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5165 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5167 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5168 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5169 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5170 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5171 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5175 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5178 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5182 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5185 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5186 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5191 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5194 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5198 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5201 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5202 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5203 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5204 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5205 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5207 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5208 remove debian/files properly.
5209 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5210 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5211 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5212 * Removed bogus menu file.
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5216 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5219 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5223 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5226 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5227 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5228 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5229 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5230 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5231 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5235 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5238 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5239 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5240 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5241 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5245 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5252 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5255 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5256 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5258 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5259 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5260 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5261 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5262 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5263 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5267 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5270 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5271 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5272 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5273 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5274 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5275 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5276 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5277 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5278 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5279 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5280 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5281 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5282 passed any switches.
5283 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5287 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5290 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5291 at all for a long while.
5292 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5293 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5294 large chunks in the process.
5295 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5296 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5297 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5302 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5305 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5307 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5312 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5315 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5316 that don't always have the same files in them.
5317 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5318 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5319 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5323 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5327 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5328 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5329 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5330 updating 27 man pages.
5331 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5332 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5333 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5334 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5335 programs act on. (#25247)
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5339 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5343 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5344 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5345 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5346 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5347 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5348 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5353 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5360 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5367 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5370 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5374 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5380 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5383 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5384 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5385 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5386 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5387 package by accident.
5388 * Is version 1.0 next?
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5392 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5395 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5396 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5400 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5403 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5404 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5405 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5406 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5407 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5409 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5414 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5417 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5418 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5422 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5425 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5429 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5432 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5433 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5438 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5444 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5447 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5448 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5453 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5459 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5462 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5463 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5464 past week. Thanks, guys!
5466 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5467 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5468 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5469 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5470 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5471 would do in the same situation.
5472 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5473 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5475 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5477 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5478 permissions changed.
5479 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5480 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5481 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5482 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5483 files are treated identically.
5484 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5485 * Minor man page fixes.
5486 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5487 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5488 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5492 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5495 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5496 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5497 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5498 use -X multiple times, too.
5499 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5500 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5504 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5507 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5508 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5512 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5515 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5519 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5522 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5523 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5524 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5525 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5526 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5527 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5528 shape if you're starting a new package.
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5532 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5535 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5539 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5542 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5543 because of missing symlinks.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5547 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5553 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5556 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5557 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5558 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5559 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5560 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5562 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5563 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5567 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5569 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5570 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5571 to be changed after the fact :-)
5572 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5576 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5578 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5579 no version string after the -V.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5583 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5585 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5586 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5591 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5594 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5598 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5601 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5602 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5603 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5604 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5605 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5606 I always welcome corrections!
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5610 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5616 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5619 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5620 * Documented this new switch.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5624 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5627 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5628 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5629 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5630 no packages use the old behavior.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5634 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5637 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5638 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5642 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5645 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5649 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5655 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5658 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5662 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5665 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5666 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5667 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5671 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5677 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5680 into the source package by accident.
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5684 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5687 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5688 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5689 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5690 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5691 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5692 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5697 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5701 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5702 inspired to implement some of it.
5703 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5707 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5710 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5714 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5717 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5718 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5722 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5725 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5726 have done.) (#17598)
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5730 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5736 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5742 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5745 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5749 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5752 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5753 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5757 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5760 argument processor in perl.
5761 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5762 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5763 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5764 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5768 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5771 type directories. (#16933)
5772 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5773 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5774 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5775 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5776 are supported. (#16935)
5777 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5782 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5785 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5789 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5793 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5794 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5795 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5796 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5797 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5798 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5802 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5805 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5806 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5808 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5809 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5810 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5811 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5812 a given package, or -i or -a.
5813 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5814 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5815 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5816 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5817 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5818 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5819 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5820 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5821 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5823 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5824 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5825 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5829 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5832 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5833 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5838 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5841 does not have a section.
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5845 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5848 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5849 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5850 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5854 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * Fixed typo #16215.
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5860 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5863 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5864 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5865 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5866 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5867 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5872 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5875 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5876 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5877 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5882 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5888 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5894 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5896 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5897 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5898 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5899 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5900 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5901 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5902 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5906 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5912 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5915 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5919 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5922 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5923 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5924 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5928 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5930 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5931 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5935 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5941 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5944 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5948 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5951 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5955 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5961 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5964 postinst, postrm, etc.
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5968 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5974 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5976 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5977 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5978 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5979 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5980 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5981 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5985 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5988 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5989 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5993 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5996 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6000 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6002 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6003 installing package files into.
6004 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6009 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6013 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6017 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6023 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6026 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6030 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6033 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6034 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6035 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6036 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6040 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6042 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6043 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6044 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6045 multiple binary packages.
6046 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6047 should rebuild them with this version.
6048 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6052 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6055 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6059 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6062 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6066 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6069 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6070 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6071 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6072 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6073 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6074 debian/README.debian.
6075 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6076 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6077 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6078 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6079 in a few situations.)
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6083 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6089 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6091 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6095 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6098 * Fixed several man pages.
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6102 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6105 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6106 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6110 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6113 is ready for general use.
6114 * Added man pages for all commands.
6115 * Multiple binary package support.
6116 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6117 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6118 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6120 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6121 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6122 auto-installed as parameters.
6123 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6125 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6128 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6129 the package build directory it is to act on.
6130 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6131 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6132 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6136 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6138 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6139 ready to replace debstd.
6141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400