1 debhelper (7.0.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:30:49 -0400
7 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
10 run and there are no packages of that type.
11 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
12 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
13 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
14 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
16 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
17 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
21 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
23 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
24 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
25 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
29 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
32 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
33 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
35 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
36 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
37 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
38 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
39 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
40 planned but not yet implemented.)
41 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
42 if the Makefile has such a target.
43 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
44 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
45 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
46 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
47 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
48 but not yet implemented.)
49 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
50 recommended default, especially when using dh.
51 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
52 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
53 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
55 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
57 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
58 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
60 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
61 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
62 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
67 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
70 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
71 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
75 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
77 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
78 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
79 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
83 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
89 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
95 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
98 just those installed by the program.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
102 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
105 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
106 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
110 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
113 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
114 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
115 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
116 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
120 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
123 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
124 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
128 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
131 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
132 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
136 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
139 with policy. Closes: #461392
140 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
141 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
142 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
143 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
144 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
148 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
151 Closes: #460340, #460351
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
155 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
158 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
159 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
160 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
161 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
165 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
168 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
169 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
170 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
171 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
172 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
173 package build directory won't work.
174 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
175 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
176 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
177 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
178 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
179 mode. Closes: #459426
180 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
185 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
188 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
192 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
196 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
197 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
198 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
199 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
200 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
201 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
205 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
208 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
209 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
210 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
211 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
215 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
218 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
219 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
220 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
221 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
222 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
226 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
229 debian/package.triggers files.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
233 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
235 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
236 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
240 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
243 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
244 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
245 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
246 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
251 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
254 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
258 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
261 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
262 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
264 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
269 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
273 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
274 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
275 * Typo. Closes: #441272
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
279 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
286 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
293 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
296 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
298 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
299 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
300 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
302 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
303 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
304 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
308 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
311 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
312 * Update urls to web page.
313 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
315 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
316 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
320 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
323 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
324 - typo in alternatives call
325 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
327 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
328 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
332 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
335 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
340 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
346 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
352 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
355 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
357 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
358 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
359 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
360 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
361 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
362 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
363 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
364 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
365 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
366 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
367 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
371 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
374 package install. Closes: #415717
375 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
376 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
377 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
378 script and then remove the python files.
379 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
380 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
381 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
382 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
383 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
384 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
385 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
386 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
387 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
388 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
389 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
390 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
391 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
395 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Correct typo in french translation
401 * Typo. Closes: #400571
402 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
404 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
406 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
407 Closes: #406921, #381940
408 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
410 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
411 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
412 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
413 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
414 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
415 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
416 specified). Closes: #381851
417 * Misc minor changes.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
421 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
428 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
429 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
433 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
439 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
440 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
443 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
444 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
446 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
447 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
448 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
449 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
453 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
456 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
459 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
463 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
469 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
475 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
476 a difficult situation.
477 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
478 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
479 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
480 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
481 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
482 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
483 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
484 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
485 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
486 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
490 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Non-maintainer upload.
493 * Update of dh_python
494 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
495 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
497 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
498 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
499 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
500 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
501 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
503 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
505 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Non-maintainer upload.
508 * Update of dh_python
509 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
510 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
511 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
512 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
513 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
514 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
515 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
516 specific python version. Closes: #373853
517 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
518 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
520 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
521 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
522 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
523 the not too-distant future).
524 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
525 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
526 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
527 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
528 thus made the build fail.
530 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
532 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Non-maintainer upload.
535 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
537 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
539 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
542 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
543 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
544 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
545 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
546 package. Closes: #301424
547 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
548 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
549 fonts). Closes: #372686
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
553 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
559 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
560 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
561 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
562 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
563 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
564 above, but already depends on that.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
568 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
571 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
572 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
573 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
574 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
575 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
579 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
585 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
591 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
592 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
596 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
599 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
603 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
607 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
608 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
609 new version (0.24.1).
610 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
611 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
614 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
615 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
616 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
617 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
618 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
619 new directory on their own.
620 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
621 * Fix broken directory removal code.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
625 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
628 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
629 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
630 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
631 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
635 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
638 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
639 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
640 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
641 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
642 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
646 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
652 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Typo. Closes: #358904
656 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
657 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
661 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
662 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
666 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
668 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
669 || exit 0 instead of the intended
671 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
672 ignored. Closes: #337664
674 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
679 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
685 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
690 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
691 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
692 the dh_installdebconf manpage
693 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
694 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
695 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
696 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
700 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
703 version. Closes: #350607
704 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
705 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
706 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
707 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
711 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
714 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
715 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
716 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
720 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
727 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Minor bug fix from last release.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
733 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
736 language guessing. Closes: #193221
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
740 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
743 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
744 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
745 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
746 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
747 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
748 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
752 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
755 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
756 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
761 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
764 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
768 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
771 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
775 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
777 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
778 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
779 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
780 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
781 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
782 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
783 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
787 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
790 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
791 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
792 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
793 link. Closes: #346405
794 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
797 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
798 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
799 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
800 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
801 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
802 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
806 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
813 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
815 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
819 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
822 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
826 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
829 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
834 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
838 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
839 installed. Closes: #342033
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
843 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
846 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
847 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
848 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
853 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
859 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
865 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
869 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
870 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
871 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
875 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
878 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
883 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
890 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
896 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
898 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
899 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
900 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
901 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
902 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
903 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
904 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
905 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
907 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
911 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
914 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
915 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
919 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
922 in standard man dirs.
923 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
927 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
933 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
936 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
941 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
948 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
955 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
958 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
959 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
963 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
965 * NMU with maintainer approval.
966 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
967 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
968 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
970 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
972 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
978 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
984 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
987 mode. Closes: #324161
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
991 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
994 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
995 behavior change. Closes: #249815
996 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
997 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1002 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1005 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1006 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1007 is necesary for sanity.
1008 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1009 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1014 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1016 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1017 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1021 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1024 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1028 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1034 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1037 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1038 released, so use at your own risk.
1039 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1040 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1042 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1043 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1044 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1045 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1046 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1047 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1048 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1049 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1050 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1051 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1052 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1053 including twice per config file line now..
1054 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1055 and simplfy the rules file.
1056 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1057 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1058 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1060 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1061 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1065 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1068 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1072 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1075 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1079 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1082 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1086 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1089 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1090 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1091 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1092 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1093 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1094 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1098 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1101 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1102 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1103 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1108 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1111 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1112 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1117 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1120 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1121 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1122 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1127 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1130 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1131 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1132 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1136 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1142 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1149 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1152 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1153 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1154 unknown. Closes: #282924
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1158 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1165 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Spanish man page updates.
1168 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1173 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1179 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1182 * dh_desktop: reindent
1183 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1184 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1188 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1194 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1196 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1200 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1202 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1206 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1209 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1210 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1214 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1220 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1226 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1233 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1236 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1240 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1243 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1244 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1245 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1246 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1247 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1248 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1250 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1251 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1252 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1253 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1254 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1255 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1256 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1257 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1258 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1259 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1260 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1261 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1262 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1263 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1264 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1265 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1269 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1276 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1279 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1283 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1286 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1290 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1293 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1297 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1300 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1304 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1310 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1316 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1322 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1325 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1326 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1327 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1331 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1334 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1338 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1341 but occasionally right and necessary.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1345 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1348 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1349 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1350 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1351 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1352 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1356 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1359 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1361 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1362 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1363 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1364 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1365 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1366 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1367 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1368 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1369 postinst scripts for udebs.
1370 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1374 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1377 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1379 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1380 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1384 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1390 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1397 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1404 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1407 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1411 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1414 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1418 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1421 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1424 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1425 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1429 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1435 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1438 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1442 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1445 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1446 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1447 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1449 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1451 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1452 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1453 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1457 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1460 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1465 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1468 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1469 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1470 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1475 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1481 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1487 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1490 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1491 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1492 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1493 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1494 associated -dbg packages.
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1498 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1501 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1505 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1508 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1512 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1515 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1519 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1522 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1527 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1530 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1534 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1537 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1542 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1545 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1549 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1553 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1554 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1555 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1556 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1557 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1558 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1559 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1560 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1561 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1562 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1566 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1569 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1574 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1577 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1578 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1582 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1585 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1586 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1591 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1594 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1598 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1601 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1605 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1608 out section number. Closes: #204731
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1612 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1619 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1625 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1631 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1634 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1635 removal. Closes: #204286
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1639 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1642 renaming. Closes: #203548
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1646 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1649 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1650 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1654 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1660 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1666 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1672 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1675 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1676 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1677 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1681 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1684 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1685 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1689 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1695 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1702 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1705 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1710 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1713 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1717 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1720 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1722 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1723 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1727 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1730 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1735 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1738 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1742 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1748 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1750 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1754 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1757 it break hard links (see #188663).
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1761 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1764 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1768 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1774 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1778 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1779 debconf-mergetemplates
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1783 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1786 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1790 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1793 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1797 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1800 * Update debhelper(1).
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1804 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1807 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1808 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1809 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1810 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1811 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1815 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1818 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1819 the shell. Closes: #178524
1820 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1824 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1827 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1831 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1834 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1838 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1841 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1842 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1843 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1844 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1849 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1852 files from installation.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1856 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1859 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1860 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1864 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1867 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1871 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1874 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1878 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1884 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1890 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1894 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1895 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1897 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1901 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1904 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1905 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1906 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1907 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1911 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1914 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1918 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1921 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1922 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1926 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1930 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1935 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1941 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1945 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1946 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1947 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1952 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1955 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1956 practice. Closes: #163303
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1960 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1976 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1978 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1979 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1980 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1981 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1982 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1986 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1989 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1994 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2000 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2010 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2040 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2043 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2044 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2045 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2046 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2064 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2067 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2068 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2075 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2076 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2077 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2078 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2079 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2083 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2086 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2088 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2096 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2103 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2104 right thing. Closes: #150644
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2108 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * Stupid, evil typo.
2111 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2115 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2122 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2125 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2126 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2131 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2140 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2144 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2147 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2148 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2156 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2160 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2166 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2169 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2170 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2174 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2180 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Removing perl warning message.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2186 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2189 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2190 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2191 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2192 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2193 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2194 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2195 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2196 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2206 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2213 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2216 debconf-mergetemplate.
2217 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2218 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2222 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2225 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2226 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2227 dh_install, which ...
2228 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2229 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2230 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2231 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2232 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2233 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2234 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2235 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2236 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2237 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2238 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2239 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2240 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2241 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2242 other minor changes.
2243 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2244 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2245 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2246 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2247 course there's -X ..)
2248 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2249 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2250 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2252 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2253 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2254 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2255 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2256 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2261 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2267 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2270 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2274 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2280 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2286 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2292 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2298 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2301 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2302 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2303 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2304 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2306 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2307 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2311 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2317 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2320 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2324 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2327 upset. Closes: #131322
2329 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2331 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2334 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2335 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2336 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2337 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2338 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2339 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2340 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2341 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2342 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2343 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2344 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2345 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2346 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2347 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2348 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2350 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2354 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2357 - Better indenting of generated code.
2358 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2362 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2366 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2367 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2368 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2369 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2370 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2371 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2372 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2376 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2379 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2383 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2386 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2387 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2388 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2389 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2390 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2391 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2392 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2393 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2394 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2395 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2396 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2397 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2398 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2399 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2400 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2405 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2411 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2414 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2415 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2419 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2422 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2423 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2427 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2433 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2436 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2437 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2438 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2439 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2440 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2445 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2451 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2454 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2458 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2461 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2466 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2472 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2475 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2479 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2485 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2489 Also some indentation fixes.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2493 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2496 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2497 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2498 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2499 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2500 Closes: #106514, #85520
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2504 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2510 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2516 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2522 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2528 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2534 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2537 change it in debhelper v4..
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2541 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2547 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2550 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2554 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2557 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2561 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2567 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2570 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2571 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2572 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2573 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2574 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2575 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2576 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2577 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2578 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2579 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2580 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2581 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2585 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2588 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2592 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2599 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2602 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2603 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2604 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2605 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2606 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2607 program those options go to. So, for example,
2608 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2609 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2610 something complex. Closes: #89311
2611 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2615 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2618 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2619 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2620 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2624 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2627 through loop. Closes: #98598
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2631 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Missing semi-colon.
2634 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2635 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2639 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2642 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2643 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2644 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2648 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2651 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2652 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2656 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2659 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2663 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2666 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2667 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2671 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2674 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2675 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2676 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2680 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2683 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2684 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2685 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2689 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2692 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2696 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2702 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2708 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2714 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2720 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2723 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2727 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2730 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2731 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2732 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2733 followed. Closes: #85483
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2737 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2739 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2740 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2741 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2745 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2748 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2749 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2750 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2751 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2752 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2753 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2754 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2755 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2756 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2757 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2758 Closes: #88464, #77743
2759 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2760 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2761 us to deal with that gracefully.
2762 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2764 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2765 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2766 a while, Closes: #51225
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2770 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2776 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2779 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2783 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2787 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2792 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2795 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2796 don't make packlist files.
2797 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2798 debhelper coding standards.
2799 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2800 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2804 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2807 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2811 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2814 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2815 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2816 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2817 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2818 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2819 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2820 but is mildly deprecated.
2821 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2822 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2823 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2824 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2825 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2826 switching to statoverrides..
2827 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2828 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2829 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2830 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2831 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2832 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2834 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2835 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2836 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2837 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2838 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2839 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2840 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2841 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2842 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2844 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2845 variable names, pod man pages).
2846 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2847 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2848 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2849 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2850 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2851 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2852 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2856 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2862 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2869 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2872 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2876 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2878 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2879 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2880 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2884 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2886 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2887 they were previously ignored.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2891 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2893 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2894 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2898 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2900 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2901 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2902 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2906 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2908 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2912 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2914 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2915 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2919 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2921 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2922 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2923 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2924 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2925 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2926 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2927 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2928 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2929 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2930 it is an obsolete program.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2934 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2936 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2940 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2944 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2946 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2950 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2952 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2954 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2956 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2960 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2966 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * typo: Closes, #78567
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2972 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2978 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2984 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2987 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2988 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2989 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2990 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2991 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2995 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2998 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3003 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3006 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3007 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3008 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3009 backwards-compatability.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3013 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3016 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3017 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3018 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3019 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3020 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3021 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3023 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3024 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3025 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3027 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3029 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3030 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3031 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3032 should now be raised to severity important..
3033 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3034 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3038 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3041 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3046 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3052 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3058 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3064 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3071 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3074 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3075 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3076 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3077 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3081 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3087 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3090 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3091 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3092 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3093 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3094 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3095 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3100 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3103 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3107 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3113 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3116 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3121 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3124 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3125 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3126 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3127 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3131 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3135 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3138 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3141 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3142 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3145 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3147 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3148 the TODO entry about it.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3152 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3159 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3162 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3163 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3167 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3170 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3171 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3172 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3173 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3177 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3183 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3190 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3193 (this appears to be logal).
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3197 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3200 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3201 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3202 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3203 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3207 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3213 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3216 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3217 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3218 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3219 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3223 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3229 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3232 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3236 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3243 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3246 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3247 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3248 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3253 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3260 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3266 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3269 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3270 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3271 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3272 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3273 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3274 notice until v2 is complete.
3275 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3276 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3277 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3278 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3279 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3280 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3282 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3283 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3284 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3285 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3289 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3295 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3302 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3305 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3309 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3316 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3319 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3320 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3321 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3322 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3327 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3330 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3331 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3332 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3337 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3340 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3341 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3345 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3348 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3352 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3355 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3359 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3366 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3369 depend on the build and install targets.
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3373 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3376 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3380 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3387 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3393 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3399 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3402 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3403 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3404 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3405 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3406 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3407 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3409 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3410 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3411 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3412 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3413 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3414 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3415 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3419 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3425 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3431 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3434 right place. Closes: #55065
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3438 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3445 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3448 * Copyright date updates.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3452 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3455 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3460 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3466 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3473 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3479 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3485 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3491 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3494 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3495 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3496 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3497 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3498 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3499 bits until all files have been registered.
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3503 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_installmanpages:
3506 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3507 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3508 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3509 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3510 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3511 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3512 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3513 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3514 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3515 otherwise change the result at all.
3517 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3518 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3519 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3520 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3521 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3526 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3532 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3535 act on files that don't exist.
3536 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3537 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3538 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3540 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3541 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3542 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3543 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3547 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3553 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3559 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3562 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3566 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3569 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3571 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3572 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3573 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3577 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3580 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3581 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3582 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3583 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3584 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3585 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3586 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3588 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3590 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3594 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3601 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3607 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3613 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3616 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3620 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3626 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3632 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3635 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3636 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3637 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3638 I made some changes, though:
3639 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3640 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3641 that is a clear violation of policy.
3642 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3643 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3644 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3645 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3646 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3647 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3648 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3649 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3650 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3652 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3656 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3662 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3665 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3669 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3672 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3673 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3678 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3684 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3691 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3694 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3695 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3696 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3697 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3698 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3699 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3700 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3704 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3710 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3714 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3715 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3719 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3725 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3728 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3732 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3735 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3736 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3740 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3742 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3747 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3751 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3755 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3758 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3759 for the dependancies to be generated.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3763 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3766 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3770 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3773 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3774 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3775 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3780 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3783 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3784 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3788 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3794 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3800 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3803 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3807 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3813 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3816 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3817 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3818 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3819 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3820 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3821 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3822 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3823 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3824 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3825 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3826 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3827 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3831 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3834 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3835 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3837 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3838 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3839 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3840 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3841 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3842 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3844 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3845 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3849 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3852 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3856 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3863 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3866 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3871 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3874 for building debhelper.
3875 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3879 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3886 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3889 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3893 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3896 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3897 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3898 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3899 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3900 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3901 it's always available.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3905 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3908 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3909 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3910 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3914 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3917 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3918 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3922 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3928 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3931 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3935 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3941 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3944 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3945 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3946 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3950 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3953 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3958 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3961 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3962 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3964 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3965 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3975 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3981 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3984 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3988 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3991 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3992 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3994 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4001 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4002 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4003 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4010 things if CDPATH is set.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4014 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4020 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4023 seems to make sense for the transition.
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4027 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4030 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4035 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4038 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4039 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4043 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4046 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4050 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4053 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4054 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4055 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4056 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4066 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4069 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4070 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4071 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4072 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4073 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4074 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4075 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4076 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4077 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4078 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4083 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4086 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4087 * README: mention doc/v2
4088 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4089 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4093 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4095 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4096 be using this script RSN.
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4100 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4103 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4104 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4105 more than 1 init script.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4109 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4112 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4116 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * Changed perl version detection.
4119 * Changed call to find.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4123 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4126 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4128 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4133 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Really include dh_installpam.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4139 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4142 * Wrote man page for same.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4146 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4149 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4150 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4155 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4162 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4165 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4166 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4167 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4168 x bit was being set!
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4172 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4175 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4176 well. (Closes: 38900)
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4180 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4183 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4184 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4188 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4194 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4201 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4207 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4210 help from Julian Gilbey.
4211 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4212 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4213 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4214 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4215 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4216 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4217 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4222 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4228 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4235 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4241 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4247 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4250 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4254 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4257 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4261 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4264 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4268 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4274 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4277 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4281 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4287 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4293 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4296 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4297 may be deleted. (#35845)
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4301 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Various man page enhancements.
4304 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4309 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4312 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4313 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4317 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4320 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4321 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4322 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4324 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4325 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4330 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4336 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * Another very minor typo fix.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4342 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * Very minor typo fix.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4348 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4351 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4352 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4356 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4362 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4365 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4366 variables properly (#34850).
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4370 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4376 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4379 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4380 (automatically generated by build process).
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4384 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4386 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4390 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4393 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4394 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4396 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4400 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4403 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4407 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * README: minor typo fix.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4413 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4416 leave it at that. :-)
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4420 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4426 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4432 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4435 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4436 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4437 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4441 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4444 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4448 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4451 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4455 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4458 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4459 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4460 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4461 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4465 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4468 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4469 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4470 Craig Small for spotting this.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4474 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4477 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4478 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4482 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4488 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4491 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4495 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4497 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4498 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4499 working on the last version of debhelper.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4503 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4506 being made. (#23255)
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4510 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4516 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4519 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4523 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4526 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4527 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4528 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4529 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4533 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4536 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4537 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4538 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4539 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4541 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4542 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4544 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4549 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4555 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4561 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4564 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4565 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4566 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4567 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4568 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4569 suidregister actually supports it.
4570 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4571 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4575 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4582 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4585 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4586 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4587 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4588 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4589 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4590 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4591 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4595 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4597 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4598 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4602 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4605 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4606 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4607 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4608 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4612 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4615 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4617 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4618 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4619 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4620 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4621 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4622 effect, either. (#30118)
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4626 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4632 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4635 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4636 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4640 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4646 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4649 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4650 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4651 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4652 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4656 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4659 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4660 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4664 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4670 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4673 packages, painlessly.
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4677 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4683 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4689 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4695 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * The perl conversion is complete.
4699 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4701 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4702 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4703 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4708 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4711 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4712 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4713 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4717 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4720 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4722 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4724 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4725 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4729 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4732 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4733 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4737 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4743 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4746 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4747 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4748 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4749 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4750 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4754 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4757 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4758 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4759 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4760 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4764 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4767 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4771 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4774 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4775 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4776 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4777 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4778 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4779 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4780 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4781 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4785 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4791 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4794 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4795 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4796 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4801 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4804 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4808 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4811 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4815 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4818 sections of shared libraries.
4819 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4820 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4821 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4822 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4823 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4824 things you don't want them to.
4825 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4826 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4830 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4833 shared libraries. (#26414)
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4837 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4839 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4840 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4841 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4842 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4846 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4850 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4852 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4853 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4854 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4855 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4856 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4860 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4863 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4867 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4870 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4871 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4876 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4879 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4883 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4886 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4887 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4888 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4889 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4890 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4892 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4893 remove debian/files properly.
4894 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4895 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4896 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4897 * Removed bogus menu file.
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4901 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4904 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4908 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4911 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4912 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4913 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4914 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4915 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4916 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4920 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4923 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4924 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4925 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4926 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4930 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4937 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4940 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4941 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4943 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4944 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4945 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4946 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4947 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4948 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4952 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4955 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4956 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4957 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4958 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4959 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4960 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4961 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4962 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4963 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4964 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4965 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4966 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4967 passed any switches.
4968 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4972 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4975 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4976 at all for a long while.
4977 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4978 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4979 large chunks in the process.
4980 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4981 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4982 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4987 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4990 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4992 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4997 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5000 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5001 that don't always have the same files in them.
5002 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5003 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5004 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5008 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5012 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5013 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5014 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5015 updating 27 man pages.
5016 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5017 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5018 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5019 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5020 programs act on. (#25247)
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5024 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5028 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5029 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5030 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5031 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5032 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5033 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5038 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5045 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5052 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5055 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5059 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5065 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5068 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5069 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5070 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5071 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5072 package by accident.
5073 * Is version 1.0 next?
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5077 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5080 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5081 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5085 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5088 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5089 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5090 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5091 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5092 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5094 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5099 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5102 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5103 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5107 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5110 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5114 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5117 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5118 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5123 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5129 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5132 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5133 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5138 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5144 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5147 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5148 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5149 past week. Thanks, guys!
5151 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5152 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5153 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5154 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5155 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5156 would do in the same situation.
5157 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5158 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5160 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5162 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5163 permissions changed.
5164 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5165 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5166 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5167 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5168 files are treated identically.
5169 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5170 * Minor man page fixes.
5171 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5172 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5173 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5177 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5180 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5181 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5182 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5183 use -X multiple times, too.
5184 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5185 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5189 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5192 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5193 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5197 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5200 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5204 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5207 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5208 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5209 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5210 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5211 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5212 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5213 shape if you're starting a new package.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5217 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5220 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5224 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5227 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5228 because of missing symlinks.
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5232 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5238 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5241 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5242 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5243 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5244 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5245 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5247 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5248 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5252 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5254 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5255 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5256 to be changed after the fact :-)
5257 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5261 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5263 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5264 no version string after the -V.
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5268 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5270 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5271 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5276 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5279 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5283 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5286 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5287 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5288 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5289 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5290 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5291 I always welcome corrections!
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5295 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5301 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5304 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5305 * Documented this new switch.
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5309 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5312 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5313 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5314 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5315 no packages use the old behavior.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5319 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5322 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5323 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5327 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5330 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5334 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5340 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5343 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5347 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5350 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5351 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5352 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5356 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5362 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5365 into the source package by accident.
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5369 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5372 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5373 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5374 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5375 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5376 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5377 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5382 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5386 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5387 inspired to implement some of it.
5388 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5392 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5395 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5399 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5402 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5403 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5407 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5410 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5411 have done.) (#17598)
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5415 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5421 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5427 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5430 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5434 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5437 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5438 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5442 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5445 argument processor in perl.
5446 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5447 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5448 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5449 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5453 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5456 type directories. (#16933)
5457 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5458 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5459 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5460 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5461 are supported. (#16935)
5462 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5467 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5470 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5474 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5478 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5479 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5480 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5481 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5482 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5483 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5487 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5490 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5491 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5493 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5494 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5495 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5496 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5497 a given package, or -i or -a.
5498 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5499 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5500 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5501 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5502 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5503 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5504 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5505 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5506 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5508 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5509 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5510 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5514 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5517 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5518 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5523 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5526 does not have a section.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5530 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5533 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5534 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5535 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5539 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * Fixed typo #16215.
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5545 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5548 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5549 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5550 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5551 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5552 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5557 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5560 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5561 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5562 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5567 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5569 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5573 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5579 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5582 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5583 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5584 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5585 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5586 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5587 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5591 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5597 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5600 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5604 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5607 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5608 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5609 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5613 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5616 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5620 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5626 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5629 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5633 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5636 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5640 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5646 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5649 postinst, postrm, etc.
5651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5653 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5655 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5659 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5662 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5663 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5664 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5665 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5666 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5670 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5673 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5674 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5678 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5681 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5685 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5688 installing package files into.
5689 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5694 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5698 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5702 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5708 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5711 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5715 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5718 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5719 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5720 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5721 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5725 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5727 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5728 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5729 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5730 multiple binary packages.
5731 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5732 should rebuild them with this version.
5733 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5737 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5740 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5744 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5747 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5751 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5754 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5755 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5756 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5757 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5758 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5759 debian/README.debian.
5760 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5761 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5762 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5763 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5764 in a few situations.)
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5768 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5774 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5780 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5783 * Fixed several man pages.
5785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5787 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5789 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5790 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5791 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5795 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5798 is ready for general use.
5799 * Added man pages for all commands.
5800 * Multiple binary package support.
5801 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5802 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5803 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5805 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5806 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5807 auto-installed as parameters.
5808 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5810 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5813 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5814 the package build directory it is to act on.
5815 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5816 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5817 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5821 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5823 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5824 ready to replace debstd.
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400