1 debhelper (8.9.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
4 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:13:01 -0400
9 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
12 Use override targets instead.
13 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
14 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
15 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
16 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
17 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
18 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
19 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
20 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
21 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
22 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
27 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
30 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
34 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
40 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
43 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
44 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
45 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
46 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
47 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
48 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
52 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
55 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
56 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
57 the targets. Closes: #629139
59 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
60 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
61 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
62 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
63 are already set to other values will not be changed.
65 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
66 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
67 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
68 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
69 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
74 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
80 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
83 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
84 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
88 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
91 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
92 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
93 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
94 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
95 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
96 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
97 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
102 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
106 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
107 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
109 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
110 changes may be added to that mode.
111 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
112 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
113 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
114 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
115 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
116 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
117 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
118 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
119 * Removed old example rules files.
120 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
124 * update french translation.
125 * Fix french misspelling.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
129 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
132 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
136 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
139 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
140 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
141 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
142 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
143 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
144 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
145 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
149 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
152 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
153 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
154 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
155 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
156 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
157 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
159 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
160 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
161 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
162 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
163 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
164 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
165 (Thanks, David Prévot)
166 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
167 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
168 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
169 target fails. Closes: #601037
170 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
172 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
173 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
174 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
175 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
176 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
178 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
179 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
181 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
182 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
183 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
185 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
187 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
190 * update french translation.
191 * Fix french misspelling.
192 * French translation update after massive man page typography
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
196 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
202 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
206 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
208 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
212 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
214 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
215 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
216 introduced by the fix to #527990.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
220 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
223 changes are planned for that mode.
224 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
225 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
226 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
227 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
228 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
229 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
230 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
231 (genesis) still uses them.
232 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
233 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
234 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
235 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
236 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
237 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
238 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
239 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
240 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
241 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
242 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
243 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
244 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
245 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
246 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
247 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
248 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
249 commands. (See #570039)
250 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
252 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
257 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
261 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
262 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
263 in control file or debhelper config files.
264 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
268 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
271 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
272 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
276 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
279 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
283 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
286 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
287 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
291 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Updated French translation.
294 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
295 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
296 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
297 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
299 * Typo. Closes: #571968
300 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
301 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
302 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
303 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
304 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
305 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
306 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
307 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
308 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
310 * dh: Improve documentation.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
314 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
316 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
317 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
318 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
322 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
325 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
329 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
332 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
336 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
339 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
340 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
341 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
342 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
343 options that they do not support.
344 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
345 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
346 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
347 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
348 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
349 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
354 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
358 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
359 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
360 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
361 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
362 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
363 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
364 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
365 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
366 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
370 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
373 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
374 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
375 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
376 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
380 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Typo. Closes: #558654
383 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
384 installed. Closes: #558782
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
388 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
391 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
392 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
393 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
394 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
395 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
399 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
401 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
402 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
403 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
404 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
408 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
411 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
412 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
416 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
418 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
422 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
424 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
425 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
426 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
427 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
428 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
429 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
430 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
431 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
432 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
433 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
434 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
435 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
436 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
437 time soon.) Closes: #554509
438 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
440 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
441 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
442 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
443 document id. Closes: #555677
444 * Typo. Closes: #555659
445 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
446 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
447 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
448 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
450 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
451 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
452 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
457 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
460 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
461 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
462 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
463 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
464 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
465 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
466 translation (#494300 part 2)
469 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
471 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
472 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
473 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
474 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
475 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
479 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
482 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
483 (It was only run once due to logging.)
484 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
485 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
486 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
487 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
488 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
489 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
490 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
491 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
492 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
493 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
497 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
500 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
501 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
504 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
505 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
509 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
512 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
513 flag with arch all/any packages.
514 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
515 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
516 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
517 situation. Closes: #540794
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
521 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
525 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
526 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
527 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
528 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
529 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
532 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
533 the default. Closes: #538201
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
538 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
542 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
543 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
544 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
545 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
546 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
548 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
549 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
550 * Above Closes: #491117
551 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
556 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
562 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
563 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
564 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
568 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
571 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
572 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
573 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
574 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
575 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
580 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
583 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
584 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
588 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
590 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
594 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
596 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
597 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
599 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
600 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
601 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
605 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
607 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
608 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
612 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
618 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
620 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
621 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
622 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
627 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
629 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
633 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
636 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
637 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
638 created by using `python' first during build and install.
640 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
645 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
647 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
651 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
653 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
654 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
658 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
660 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
664 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
666 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
670 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
672 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
673 contributed by Modestas Vainius
674 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
675 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
676 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
677 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
678 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
679 that support it. Closes: #480577
680 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
681 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
682 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
684 - Adds support for cmake.
685 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
686 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
688 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
690 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
691 that use them. The options are:
692 --sourcedir, --destdir
693 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
694 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
695 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
696 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
697 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
701 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
707 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
710 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
711 default. Closes: #537140
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
715 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
717 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
718 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
719 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
723 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
726 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
730 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
733 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
737 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
740 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
742 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
743 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
744 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
748 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
751 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
752 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
753 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
757 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
760 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
761 warning or deprecation message.
762 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
763 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
764 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
765 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
766 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
767 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
768 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
769 Closes: #534639, #357434
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
773 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
779 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
782 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
783 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
784 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
785 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
787 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
788 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
789 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
793 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
799 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
806 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
809 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
813 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
817 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
818 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
820 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
821 file support. Closes: #494914
822 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
826 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
829 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
830 parameters. Closes: #527256
831 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
832 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
833 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
837 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
841 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
842 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
843 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
847 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
850 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
851 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
852 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
856 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
859 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
860 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
862 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
863 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
864 by triggers). Closes: #521181
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
868 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
872 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
876 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
879 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
880 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
881 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
882 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
887 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
893 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
896 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
897 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
898 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
899 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
900 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
902 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
903 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
904 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
905 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
906 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
907 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
911 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
914 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
915 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
916 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
917 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
918 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
920 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
924 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
926 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
930 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
932 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
933 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
934 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
935 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
936 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
937 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
938 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
939 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
940 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
941 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
942 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
946 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
948 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
949 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
951 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
952 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
953 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
954 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
956 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
957 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
961 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
963 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
964 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
965 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
966 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
967 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
968 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
969 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
971 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
972 that uses them. Affected options are:
973 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
974 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
975 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
976 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
977 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
978 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
979 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
980 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
981 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
982 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
983 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
984 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
988 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
995 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1001 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1004 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1006 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1007 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1008 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1009 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1010 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1011 than the old method.
1012 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1014 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1015 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1016 rules (see bug #509756).
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1020 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1026 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1027 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1028 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1029 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1033 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1036 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1037 empty files. Closes: #490937
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1041 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1047 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1054 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1057 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1058 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1059 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1060 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1065 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1067 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1068 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1069 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1070 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1074 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1077 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1078 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1079 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1080 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1081 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1085 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1092 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1095 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1096 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1097 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1098 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1099 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1100 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1101 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1102 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1103 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1107 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1110 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1111 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1112 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1113 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1115 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1116 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1117 breaking backwards compatibility.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1121 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1124 message in perl 5.10.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1128 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1134 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1137 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1141 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1144 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1148 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1151 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1152 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1153 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1154 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1155 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1156 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1157 logging by dh_listpackages.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1161 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1164 run and there are no packages of that type.
1165 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1166 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1167 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1168 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1170 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1171 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1175 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1178 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1179 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1183 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1186 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1187 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1189 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1190 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1191 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1192 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1193 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1194 planned but not yet implemented.)
1195 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1196 if the Makefile has such a target.
1197 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1198 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1199 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1200 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1201 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1202 but not yet implemented.)
1203 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1204 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1205 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1206 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1207 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1209 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1211 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1212 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1214 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1215 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1216 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1221 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1224 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1225 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1229 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1231 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1232 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1233 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1237 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1243 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1249 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1252 just those installed by the program.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1256 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1259 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1260 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1264 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1267 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1268 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1269 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1270 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1274 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1277 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1278 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1282 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1285 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1286 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1290 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1293 with policy. Closes: #461392
1294 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1295 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1296 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1297 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1298 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1302 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1305 Closes: #460340, #460351
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1309 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1312 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1313 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1314 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1315 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1319 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1322 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1323 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1324 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1325 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1326 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1327 package build directory won't work.
1328 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1329 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1330 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1331 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1332 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1333 mode. Closes: #459426
1334 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1339 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1342 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1346 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1350 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1351 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1352 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1353 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1354 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1355 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1359 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1362 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1363 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1364 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1365 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1369 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1372 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1373 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1374 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1375 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1376 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1380 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1383 debian/package.triggers files.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1387 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1390 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1394 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1397 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1398 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1399 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1400 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1405 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1408 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1412 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1415 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1416 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1418 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1423 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1427 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1428 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1429 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1433 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1440 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1447 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1450 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1452 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1453 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1454 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1456 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1457 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1458 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1462 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1465 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1466 * Update urls to web page.
1467 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1468 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1469 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1470 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1474 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1477 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1478 - typo in alternatives call
1479 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1481 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1482 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1486 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1489 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1494 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1500 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1506 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1509 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1511 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1512 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1513 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1514 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1515 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1516 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1517 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1518 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1519 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1520 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1521 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1525 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1528 package install. Closes: #415717
1529 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1530 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1531 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1532 script and then remove the python files.
1533 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1534 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1535 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1536 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1537 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1538 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1539 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1540 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1541 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1542 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1543 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1544 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1545 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1549 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Correct typo in french translation
1555 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1556 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1558 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1560 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1561 Closes: #406921, #381940
1562 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1564 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1565 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1566 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1567 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1568 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1569 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1570 specified). Closes: #381851
1571 * Misc minor changes.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1575 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1582 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1583 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1587 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1593 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1594 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1597 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1598 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1600 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1601 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1602 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1603 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1607 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1610 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1613 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1617 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1623 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1629 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1630 a difficult situation.
1631 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1632 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1633 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1634 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1635 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1636 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1637 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1638 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1639 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1640 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1644 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Non-maintainer upload.
1647 * Update of dh_python
1648 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1649 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1651 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1652 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1653 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1654 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1655 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1657 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1659 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Non-maintainer upload.
1662 * Update of dh_python
1663 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1664 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1665 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1666 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1667 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1668 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1669 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1670 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1671 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1672 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1674 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1675 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1676 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1677 the not too-distant future).
1678 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1679 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1680 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1681 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1682 thus made the build fail.
1684 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1686 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Non-maintainer upload.
1689 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1691 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1693 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1696 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1697 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1698 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1699 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1700 package. Closes: #301424
1701 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1702 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1703 fonts). Closes: #372686
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1707 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1713 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1714 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1715 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1716 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1717 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1718 above, but already depends on that.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1722 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1725 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1726 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1727 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1728 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1729 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1733 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1739 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1745 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1746 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1750 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1753 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1757 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1761 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1762 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1763 new version (0.24.1).
1764 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1765 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1768 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1769 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1770 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1771 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1772 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1773 new directory on their own.
1774 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1775 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1779 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1782 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1783 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1784 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1785 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1789 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1792 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1793 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1794 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1795 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1796 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1800 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1806 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1810 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1811 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1815 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1816 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1820 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1822 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1823 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1825 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1826 ignored. Closes: #337664
1828 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1833 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1839 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1844 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1845 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1846 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1847 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1848 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1849 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1850 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1854 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1857 version. Closes: #350607
1858 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1859 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1860 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1861 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1865 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1868 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1869 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1870 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1874 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1881 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1887 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1890 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1894 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1897 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1898 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1899 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1900 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1901 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1902 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1906 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1909 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1910 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1915 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1918 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1922 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1925 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1929 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1932 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1933 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1934 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1935 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1936 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1937 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1941 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1945 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1946 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1947 link. Closes: #346405
1948 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1950 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1951 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1952 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1953 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1954 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1955 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1956 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1960 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1967 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1973 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1976 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1980 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1983 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1988 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1992 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1993 installed. Closes: #342033
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1997 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2000 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2001 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2002 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2007 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2013 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2019 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2023 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2024 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2025 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2029 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2032 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2037 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2044 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2050 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2053 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2054 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2055 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2056 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2057 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2058 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2059 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2061 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2065 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2068 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2069 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2076 in standard man dirs.
2077 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2081 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2090 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2095 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2102 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2109 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2112 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2113 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2120 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2121 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2122 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2124 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2126 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2132 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2138 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2141 mode. Closes: #324161
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2145 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2148 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2149 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2150 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2151 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2156 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2159 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2160 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2161 is necesary for sanity.
2162 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2163 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2170 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2171 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2178 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2188 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2191 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2192 released, so use at your own risk.
2193 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2194 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2196 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2197 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2198 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2199 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2200 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2201 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2202 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2203 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2204 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2205 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2206 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2207 including twice per config file line now..
2208 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2209 and simplfy the rules file.
2210 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2211 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2212 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2214 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2215 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2219 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2222 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2226 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2229 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2233 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2236 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2240 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2243 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2244 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2245 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2246 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2247 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2248 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2252 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2255 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2256 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2257 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2262 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2265 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2266 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2271 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2274 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2275 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2276 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2281 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2284 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2285 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2286 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2290 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2296 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2303 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2306 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2307 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2308 unknown. Closes: #282924
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2312 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2319 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Spanish man page updates.
2322 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2333 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2336 * dh_desktop: reindent
2337 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2338 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2350 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2354 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2356 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2360 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2363 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2364 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2368 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2374 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2380 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2390 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2397 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2398 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2399 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2400 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2401 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2402 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2404 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2405 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2406 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2407 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2408 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2409 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2410 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2411 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2412 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2413 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2414 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2415 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2416 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2417 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2418 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2419 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2433 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2437 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2440 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2447 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2451 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2454 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2458 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2464 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2470 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2476 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2479 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2480 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2481 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2485 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2488 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2492 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2495 but occasionally right and necessary.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2499 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2502 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2503 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2504 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2505 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2506 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2510 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2513 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2515 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2516 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2517 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2518 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2519 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2520 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2521 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2522 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2523 postinst scripts for udebs.
2524 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2528 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2531 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2533 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2534 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2538 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2544 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2551 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2558 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2561 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2565 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2568 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2572 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2575 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2578 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2579 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2583 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2589 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2592 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2596 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2599 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2600 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2601 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2603 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2605 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2606 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2607 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2611 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2614 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2619 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2622 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2623 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2624 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2629 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2635 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2641 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2644 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2645 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2646 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2647 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2648 associated -dbg packages.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2652 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2655 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2659 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2662 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2666 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2669 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2673 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2676 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2681 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2684 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2688 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2691 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2696 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2699 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2707 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2708 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2709 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2710 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2711 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2712 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2713 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2714 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2715 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2716 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2720 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2723 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2728 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2731 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2732 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2736 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2739 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2740 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2745 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2748 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2752 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2755 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2759 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2762 out section number. Closes: #204731
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2766 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2773 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2779 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2788 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2789 removal. Closes: #204286
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2793 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2796 renaming. Closes: #203548
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2800 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2803 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2804 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2808 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2814 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2820 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2826 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2829 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2830 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2831 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2835 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2838 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2839 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2843 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2856 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2859 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2864 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2867 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2871 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2874 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2876 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2877 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2881 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2884 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2889 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2892 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2896 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2902 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2904 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2908 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2911 it break hard links (see #188663).
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2915 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2918 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2922 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2928 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2932 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2933 debconf-mergetemplates
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2937 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2940 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2944 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2947 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2951 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2954 * Update debhelper(1).
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2958 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2961 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2962 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2963 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2964 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2965 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2969 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2972 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2973 the shell. Closes: #178524
2974 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2978 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2981 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2985 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2988 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2992 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2995 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2996 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2997 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2998 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3003 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3006 files from installation.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3010 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3013 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3014 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3018 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3021 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3025 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3028 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3032 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3038 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3044 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3048 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3049 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3051 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3055 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3058 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3059 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3060 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3061 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3065 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3068 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3072 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3075 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3076 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3080 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3084 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3089 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3095 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3099 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3100 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3101 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3106 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3109 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3110 practice. Closes: #163303
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3114 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3120 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3127 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3130 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3132 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3133 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3134 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3135 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3136 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3140 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3143 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3148 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3154 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3161 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3164 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3169 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3175 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3181 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3187 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3194 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3197 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3198 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3199 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3200 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3205 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3211 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3218 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3221 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3222 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3226 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3229 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3230 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3231 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3232 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3233 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3237 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3240 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3242 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3247 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3250 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3254 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3257 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3258 right thing. Closes: #150644
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3262 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Stupid, evil typo.
3265 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3269 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3276 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3279 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3280 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3285 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3291 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3294 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3298 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3301 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3302 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3307 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3310 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3314 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3320 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3323 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3324 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3328 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3334 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Removing perl warning message.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3340 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3343 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3344 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3345 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3346 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3347 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3348 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3349 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3350 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3354 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3360 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3367 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3370 debconf-mergetemplate.
3371 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3372 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3376 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3379 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3380 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3381 dh_install, which ...
3382 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3383 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3384 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3385 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3386 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3387 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3388 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3389 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3390 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3391 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3392 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3393 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3394 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3395 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3396 other minor changes.
3397 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3398 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3399 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3400 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3401 course there's -X ..)
3402 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3403 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3404 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3406 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3407 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3408 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3409 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3410 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3415 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3421 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3424 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3428 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3434 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3440 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3446 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3452 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3455 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3456 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3457 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3458 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3460 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3461 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3465 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3471 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3474 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3478 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3481 upset. Closes: #131322
3483 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3485 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3488 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3489 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3490 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3491 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3492 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3493 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3494 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3495 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3496 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3497 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3498 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3499 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3500 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3501 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3502 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3504 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3508 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3511 - Better indenting of generated code.
3512 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3516 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3520 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3521 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3522 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3523 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3524 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3525 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3526 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3530 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3533 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3537 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3540 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3541 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3542 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3543 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3544 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3545 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3546 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3547 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3548 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3549 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3550 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3551 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3552 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3553 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3554 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3559 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3565 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3568 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3569 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3573 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3576 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3577 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3581 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3587 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3590 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3591 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3592 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3593 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3594 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3599 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3605 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3608 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3612 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3615 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3620 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3626 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3629 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3633 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3639 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3643 Also some indentation fixes.
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3647 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3650 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3651 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3652 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3653 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3654 Closes: #106514, #85520
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3658 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3664 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3670 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3676 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3682 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3688 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3691 change it in debhelper v4..
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3695 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3701 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3704 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3708 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3711 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3715 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3721 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3724 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3725 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3726 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3727 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3728 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3729 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3730 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3731 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3732 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3733 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3734 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3735 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3739 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3742 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3746 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3753 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3756 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3757 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3758 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3759 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3760 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3761 program those options go to. So, for example,
3762 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3763 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3764 something complex. Closes: #89311
3765 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3769 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3772 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3773 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3774 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3778 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3781 through loop. Closes: #98598
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3785 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Missing semi-colon.
3788 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3789 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3793 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3796 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3797 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3798 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3802 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3805 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3806 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3810 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3813 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3817 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3820 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3821 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3825 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3828 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3829 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3830 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3834 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3837 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3838 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3839 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3843 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3846 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3850 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3856 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3862 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3868 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3874 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3877 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3881 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3884 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3885 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3886 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3887 followed. Closes: #85483
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3891 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3893 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3894 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3895 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3899 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3902 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3903 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3904 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3905 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3906 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3907 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3908 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3909 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3910 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3911 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3912 Closes: #88464, #77743
3913 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3914 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3915 us to deal with that gracefully.
3916 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3918 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3919 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3920 a while, Closes: #51225
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3924 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3930 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3933 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3937 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3941 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3946 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3949 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3950 don't make packlist files.
3951 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3952 debhelper coding standards.
3953 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3954 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3958 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3961 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3965 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3968 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3969 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3970 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3971 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3972 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3973 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3974 but is mildly deprecated.
3975 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3976 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3977 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3978 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3979 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3980 switching to statoverrides..
3981 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3982 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3983 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3984 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3985 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3986 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3988 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3989 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3990 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3991 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3992 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3993 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3994 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3995 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3996 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3998 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3999 variable names, pod man pages).
4000 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4001 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4002 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4003 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4004 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4005 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4006 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4010 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4016 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4023 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4026 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4030 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4032 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4033 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4034 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4038 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4040 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4041 they were previously ignored.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4045 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4047 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4048 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4052 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4054 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4055 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4056 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4060 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4062 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4066 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4068 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4069 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4073 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4075 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4076 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4077 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4078 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4079 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4080 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4081 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4082 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4083 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4084 it is an obsolete program.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4088 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4090 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4094 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4098 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4100 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4104 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4106 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4108 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4110 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4120 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * typo: Closes, #78567
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4126 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4132 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4138 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4141 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4142 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4143 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4144 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4145 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4149 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4152 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4157 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4160 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4161 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4162 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4163 backwards-compatibility.
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4167 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4170 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4171 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4172 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4173 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4174 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4175 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4177 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4178 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4179 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4181 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4183 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4184 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4185 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4186 should now be raised to severity important..
4187 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4188 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4192 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4195 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4200 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4206 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4212 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4218 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4225 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4228 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4229 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4230 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4231 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4235 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4241 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4244 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4245 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4246 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4247 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4248 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4249 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4257 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4261 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4267 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4270 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4278 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4279 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4280 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4281 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4289 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4292 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4295 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4296 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4299 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4301 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4302 the TODO entry about it.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4306 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4313 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4316 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4317 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4321 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4324 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4325 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4326 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4327 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4344 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4347 (this appears to be logal).
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4351 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4354 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4355 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4356 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4357 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4361 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4370 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4371 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4372 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4373 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4377 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4386 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4390 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4397 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4400 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4401 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4402 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4407 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4414 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4420 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4423 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4424 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4425 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4426 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4427 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4428 notice until v2 is complete.
4429 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4430 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4431 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4432 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4433 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4434 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4436 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4437 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4438 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4439 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4443 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4449 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4456 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4459 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4463 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4470 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4473 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4474 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4475 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4476 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4481 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4484 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4485 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4486 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4491 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4494 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4495 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4499 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4502 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4506 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4509 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4513 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4520 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4523 depend on the build and install targets.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4527 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4530 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4541 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4547 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4553 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4556 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4557 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4558 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4559 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4560 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4561 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4563 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4564 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4565 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4566 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4567 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4568 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4569 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4573 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4579 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4585 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4588 right place. Closes: #55065
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4592 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4599 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4602 * Copyright date updates.
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4606 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4609 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4614 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4620 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4627 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4633 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4639 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4645 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4648 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4649 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4650 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4651 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4652 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4653 bits until all files have been registered.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4657 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * dh_installmanpages:
4660 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4661 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4662 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4663 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4664 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4665 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4666 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4667 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4668 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4669 otherwise change the result at all.
4671 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4672 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4673 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4674 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4675 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4680 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4686 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4689 act on files that don't exist.
4690 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4691 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4692 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4694 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4695 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4696 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4697 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4701 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4707 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4713 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4716 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4720 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4723 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4725 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4726 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4727 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4731 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4734 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4735 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4736 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4737 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4738 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4739 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4740 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4742 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4744 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4748 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4755 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4761 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4767 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4770 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4774 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4780 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4786 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4789 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4790 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4791 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4792 I made some changes, though:
4793 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4794 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4795 that is a clear violation of policy.
4796 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4797 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4798 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4799 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4800 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4801 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4802 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4803 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4804 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4806 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4810 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4816 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4819 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4823 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4826 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4827 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4832 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4838 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4845 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4848 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4849 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4850 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4851 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4852 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4853 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4854 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4858 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4864 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4868 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4869 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4873 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4879 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4882 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4886 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4889 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4890 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4894 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4896 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4901 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4905 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4909 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4912 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4913 for the dependancies to be generated.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4917 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4920 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4924 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4927 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4928 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4929 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4934 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4937 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4938 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4942 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4948 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4954 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4957 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4961 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4967 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4970 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4971 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4972 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4973 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4974 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4975 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4976 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4977 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4978 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4979 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4980 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4981 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4985 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4988 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4989 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4991 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4992 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4993 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4994 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4995 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4996 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4998 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4999 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5003 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5006 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5010 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5017 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5020 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5025 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5028 for building debhelper.
5029 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5033 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5040 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5043 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5047 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5050 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5051 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5052 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5053 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5054 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5055 it's always available.
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5059 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5062 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5063 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5064 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5068 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5071 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5072 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5076 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5082 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5085 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5089 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5095 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5098 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5099 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5100 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5104 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5107 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5112 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5115 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5116 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5118 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5119 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5123 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5129 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5135 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5138 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5142 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5145 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5146 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5148 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5152 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5155 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5156 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5157 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5161 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5164 things if CDPATH is set.
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5168 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5174 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5177 seems to make sense for the transition.
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5181 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5184 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5189 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5192 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5193 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5197 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5200 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5204 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5207 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5208 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5209 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5210 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5214 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5220 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5223 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5224 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5225 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5226 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5227 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5228 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5229 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5230 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5231 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5232 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5237 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5240 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5241 * README: mention doc/v2
5242 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5243 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5247 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5249 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5250 be using this script RSN.
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5254 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5257 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5258 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5259 more than 1 init script.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5263 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5266 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5270 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * Changed perl version detection.
5273 * Changed call to find.
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5277 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5280 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5282 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5287 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * Really include dh_installpam.
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5293 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5296 * Wrote man page for same.
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5300 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5303 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5304 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5309 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5316 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5319 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5320 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5321 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5322 x bit was being set!
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5326 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5329 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5330 well. (Closes: 38900)
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5334 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5337 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5338 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5342 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5348 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5355 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5361 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5364 help from Julian Gilbey.
5365 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5366 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5367 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5368 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5369 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5370 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5371 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5376 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5382 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5389 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5395 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5401 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5404 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5408 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5411 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5415 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5418 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5422 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5428 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5431 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5435 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5441 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5447 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5450 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5451 may be deleted. (#35845)
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5455 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * Various man page enhancements.
5458 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5463 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5466 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5467 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5471 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5474 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5475 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5476 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5478 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5479 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5484 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5490 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * Another very minor typo fix.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5496 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * Very minor typo fix.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5502 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5505 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5506 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5510 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5516 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5519 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5520 variables properly (#34850).
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5524 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5530 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5533 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5534 (automatically generated by build process).
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5538 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5540 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5544 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5547 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5548 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5550 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5554 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5557 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5561 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * README: minor typo fix.
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5567 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5569 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5570 leave it at that. :-)
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5574 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5580 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5586 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5589 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5590 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5591 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5595 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5598 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5602 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5605 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5609 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5612 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5613 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5614 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5615 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5619 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5622 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5623 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5624 Craig Small for spotting this.
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5628 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5631 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5632 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5636 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5642 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5645 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5649 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5651 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5652 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5653 working on the last version of debhelper.
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5657 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5660 being made. (#23255)
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5664 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5670 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5673 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5677 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5680 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5681 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5682 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5683 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5687 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5690 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5691 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5692 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5693 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5695 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5696 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5698 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5703 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5709 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5715 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5718 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5719 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5720 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5721 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5722 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5723 suidregister actually supports it.
5724 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5725 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5729 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5736 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5739 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5740 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5741 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5742 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5743 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5744 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5745 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5749 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5751 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5752 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5756 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5759 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5760 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5761 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5762 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5766 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5769 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5771 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5772 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5773 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5774 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5775 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5776 effect, either. (#30118)
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5780 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5786 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5789 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5790 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5794 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5800 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5803 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5804 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5805 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5806 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5810 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5813 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5814 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5818 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5824 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5827 packages, painlessly.
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5831 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5837 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5843 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5849 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5851 * The perl conversion is complete.
5853 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5855 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5856 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5857 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5862 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5865 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5866 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5867 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5871 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5874 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5876 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5878 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5879 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5883 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5885 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5886 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5887 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5891 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5893 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5897 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5900 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5901 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5902 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5903 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5904 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5908 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5910 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5911 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5912 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5913 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5914 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5918 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5921 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5925 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5928 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5929 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5930 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5931 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5932 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5933 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5934 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5935 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5939 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5945 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5947 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5948 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5949 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5950 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5955 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5958 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5962 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5965 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5969 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5971 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5972 sections of shared libraries.
5973 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5974 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5975 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5976 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5977 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5978 things you don't want them to.
5979 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5980 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5984 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5987 shared libraries. (#26414)
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5991 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5993 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5994 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5995 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5996 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6000 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6002 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6004 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6006 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6007 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6008 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6009 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6010 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6014 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6017 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6021 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6024 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6025 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6030 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6033 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6037 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6039 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6040 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6041 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6042 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6043 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6044 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6046 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6047 remove debian/files properly.
6048 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6049 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6050 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6051 * Removed bogus menu file.
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6055 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6058 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6062 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6065 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6066 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6067 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6068 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6069 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6070 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6074 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6077 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6078 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6079 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6080 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6084 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6086 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6091 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6094 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6095 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6097 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6098 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6099 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6100 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6101 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6102 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6106 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6108 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6109 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6110 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6111 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6112 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6113 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6114 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6115 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6116 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6117 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6118 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6119 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6120 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6121 passed any switches.
6122 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6126 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6129 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6130 at all for a long while.
6131 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6132 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6133 large chunks in the process.
6134 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6135 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6136 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6141 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6144 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6146 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6151 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6153 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6154 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6155 that don't always have the same files in them.
6156 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6157 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6158 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6162 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6164 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6166 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6167 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6168 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6169 updating 27 man pages.
6170 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6171 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6172 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6173 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6174 programs act on. (#25247)
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6178 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6182 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6183 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6184 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6185 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6186 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6187 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6192 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6194 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6199 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6201 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6206 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6209 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6213 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6219 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6222 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6223 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6224 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6225 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6226 package by accident.
6227 * Is version 1.0 next?
6229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6231 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6233 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6234 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6235 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6239 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6241 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6242 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6243 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6244 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6245 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6246 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6248 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6253 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6255 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6256 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6257 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6261 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6263 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6264 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6268 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6271 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6272 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6277 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6279 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6283 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6285 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6286 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6287 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6292 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6294 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6298 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6300 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6301 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6302 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6303 past week. Thanks, guys!
6305 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6306 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6307 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6308 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6309 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6310 would do in the same situation.
6311 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6312 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6314 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6316 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6317 permissions changed.
6318 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6319 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6320 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6321 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6322 files are treated identically.
6323 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6324 * Minor man page fixes.
6325 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6326 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6327 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6331 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6334 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6335 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6336 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6337 use -X multiple times, too.
6338 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6339 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6343 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6346 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6347 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6351 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6353 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6354 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6358 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6360 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6361 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6362 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6363 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6364 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6365 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6366 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6367 shape if you're starting a new package.
6369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6371 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6373 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6374 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6378 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6380 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6381 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6382 because of missing symlinks.
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6386 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6392 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6395 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6396 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6397 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6398 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6399 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6401 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6402 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6406 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6408 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6409 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6410 to be changed after the fact :-)
6411 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6415 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6417 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6418 no version string after the -V.
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6422 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6424 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6425 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6430 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6432 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6433 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6437 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6440 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6441 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6442 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6443 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6444 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6445 I always welcome corrections!
6447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6449 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6451 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6455 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6458 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6459 * Documented this new switch.
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6463 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6466 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6467 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6468 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6469 no packages use the old behavior.
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6473 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6476 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6477 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6481 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6483 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6484 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6488 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6494 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6496 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6497 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6501 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6504 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6505 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6506 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6510 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6512 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6516 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6518 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6519 into the source package by accident.
6521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6523 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6525 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6526 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6527 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6528 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6529 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6530 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6531 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6536 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6540 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6541 inspired to implement some of it.
6542 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6546 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6548 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6549 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6553 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6555 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6556 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6557 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6561 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6564 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6565 have done.) (#17598)
6567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6569 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6571 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6575 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6581 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6584 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6588 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6590 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6591 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6592 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6596 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6598 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6599 argument processor in perl.
6600 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6601 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6602 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6603 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6607 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6609 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6610 type directories. (#16933)
6611 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6612 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6613 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6614 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6615 are supported. (#16935)
6616 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6621 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6623 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6624 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6628 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6630 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6632 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6633 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6634 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6635 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6636 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6637 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6641 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6644 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6645 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6647 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6648 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6649 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6650 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6651 a given package, or -i or -a.
6652 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6653 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6654 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6655 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6656 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6657 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6658 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6659 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6660 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6662 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6663 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6664 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6668 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6670 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6671 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6672 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6677 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6679 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6680 does not have a section.
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6684 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6686 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6687 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6688 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6689 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6693 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6695 * Fixed typo #16215.
6697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6699 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6701 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6702 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6703 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6704 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6705 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6706 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6711 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6714 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6715 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6716 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6721 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6723 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6727 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6729 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6733 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6735 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6736 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6737 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6738 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6739 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6740 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6741 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6745 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6747 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6751 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6753 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6754 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6758 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6760 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6761 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6762 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6763 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6767 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6769 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6770 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6774 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6776 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6780 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6782 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6783 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6787 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6789 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6790 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6794 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6796 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6800 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6802 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6803 postinst, postrm, etc.
6805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6807 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6809 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6813 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6815 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6816 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6817 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6818 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6819 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6820 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6824 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6826 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6827 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6828 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6832 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6834 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6835 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6839 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6841 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6842 installing package files into.
6843 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6848 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6850 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6852 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6856 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6858 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6862 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6864 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6865 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6869 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6871 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6872 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6873 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6874 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6875 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6879 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6881 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6882 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6883 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6884 multiple binary packages.
6885 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6886 should rebuild them with this version.
6887 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6891 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6893 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6894 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6898 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6900 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6901 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6905 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6907 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6908 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6909 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6910 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6911 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6912 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6913 debian/README.debian.
6914 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6915 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6916 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6917 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6918 in a few situations.)
6920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6922 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6924 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6928 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6930 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6934 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6936 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6937 * Fixed several man pages.
6939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6941 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6943 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6944 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6945 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6949 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6951 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6952 is ready for general use.
6953 * Added man pages for all commands.
6954 * Multiple binary package support.
6955 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6956 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6957 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6959 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6960 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6961 auto-installed as parameters.
6962 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6964 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6967 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6968 the package build directory it is to act on.
6969 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6970 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6971 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6975 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6977 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6978 ready to replace debstd.
6980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400